Employment and HR

• HAVS Prosecutions Ring Warning Bell for Employers

  • Posted29 January 2014

  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently launched a series of prosecutions against employers for failing to ensure that adequate measures were taken to minimise workers’ exposure to vibration...

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• ‘Unusually Robust Language’ Did Not Undermine Unfair Dismissal Ruling

  • Posted10 January 2014

  An argument by school governors that the ‘unusually robust language’ used by an Employment Tribunal (ET) in upholding a teacher’s unfair dismissal claim revealed a loss of objectivity and amounted...

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• Court Defines Limits on Employers’ Vicarious Liability

  • Posted31 December 2013

  In a decision which helps to define the limits of employers’ vicarious liability for the culpable actions of their employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a police Chief...

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• Nurses’ Human Rights Violated by Longest Ever Disciplinary Process

  • Posted17 December 2013

  Two nurses who were found guilty of misconduct by their professional body following the longest recorded set of disciplinary proceedings have been exonerated after the High Court found that their...

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• Employee Wins Payout Following Inadequate Disciplinary Inquiry

  • Posted6 December 2013

  In a stern warning to employers that disciplinary inquiries must be performed with the utmost care, an NHS employee has been awarded more than £30,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal...

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• Business Has Right to See Former Employee’s Emails

  • Posted22 November 2013

  The Court of Appeal has overturned a recent High Court decision and confirmed that a company can have access to the emails of a former director of the company. ...

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