“UNISON has applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the Ministry of Justice’s decision to introduce employment tribunal fees from the end of next month, it has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“News that Unison has applied for Judicial Review of the Government’s controversial plans to introduce fees in the Employment Tribunal has gone viral in the Labour Law community. A key theme in the application is access to justice for working people, particularly women.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Onu v Akwiwu and others, UKEAT/0283/12/RN, UKEAT/0022/12/RN raises some interesting legal issues in a context where the need for justice may lead to an extension of the concept of race discrimination.”
No. 5 Chambers, 6th June 2013
Source: www.no5.com
“Should employees – or employers – be able to use secretly taped recordings as evidence when bringing or defending claims in the Employment Tribunal? In the recent case of Vaughan v London Borough of Lewisham & Others [2013] UKEAT 0534_12_0102 the Employment Appeal Tribunal confirmed the long established position that the method in which the evidence has been obtained does not affect its relevance; and relevance is the guiding principle when determining whether evidence is admissible.”
No. 5 Chambers, 6th June 2013
Source: www.no5.com
“The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 [‘ERRA’] received Royal Assent on 25 April 2013, bringing some significant changes to employment law and tribunal procedure. Gemma Roberts highlights the main reforms affecting employment tribunal, ACAS procedure and the changes to whistleblowing; Mugni Islam-Choudhury considers the amendments introduced to the Equality Act 2010.”
No. 5 Chambers, 6th June 2013
Source: www.no5.com
“A teaching assistant who was sacked from a primary school after refusing to sever ties with her sex offender son has been awarded £28,300 in compensation.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Hay and others v Gilgrove Ltd and another [2013] EWCA Civ 412; [2013] WLR (D) 220
“On the true construction of a collective agreement incorporated into the claimants’ contracts all who performed the role of a market porter, whether registered or unregistered, were entitled to share equally in ‘porterage’ charges made by the employer to customers for the movement of goods.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A council has been forced to pay a devout Christian more than £100,000 after colleagues stuck mini models of male genitalia made of Blu-Tack on her telephone.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A lesbian housekeeper who claimed a Tory MP and his wife tried to persuade her to join in a threesome with them had her case for sexual harassment and unfair dismissal unanimously thrown out today.”
The Independent, 5th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Fees will be introduced for workers wishing to raise a claim in the Employment Tribunal from 29 July 2013. Procedural rules governing the process will also change from that date.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Employers looking to defend or reintroduce a mandatory retirement age will find ‘very little comfort’ in last week’s decision allowing a law firm to force a partner to retire at 65, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Employers seeking to make redundancies at multiple business locations could be forced to consult employees on their plans following a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Employment Tribunal has rejected an age discrimination claim by lawyer Leslie Seldon against his former firm Clarkson Wright & Jakes (CWJ), which had initially seemed likely to threaten law firm’s ability to enforce a compulsory retirement age for partners.”
Legal Week, 31st May 2013
Source: www.legalweek.com
“The Burgundy Book (the Conditions of Service for School Teachers in England and Wales) provides that a teacher is entitled to full pay where her ‘absence was due to an infectious or contagious illness contracted directly in the course of the teacher’s employment’, and that ‘such absence was not be reckoned against the teacher’s entitlement to sick leave’.”
Employment Law Blog, 30th May 2013
Source: www.employment11kbw.com
“A Muslim-run company have been ordered to pay a Christian worker over £2,000 for racially discriminating against him because he is white.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former employee who was awaiting an appeal against her dismissal was not ’employed’ for the purposes of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A trainee lawyer is in line for compensation from a top City law firm after winning her case for discrimination after she missed out on a job because she was pregnant.”
The Guardian, 19th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Section 207A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, inserted by the Employment Act 2008, is concerned with the effect of failure to comply with the ACAS Code. In Lund v St Edmund’s School the EAT, presided over by Keith J, has held that, when considering whether ‘it is just and equitable in all the circumstances’, pursuant to Section 207A, to make an uplift to a compensatory award for an employer’s failure to follow the Code, an Employment Tribunal should not take into account the fact the employee had contributed to his dismissal.”
Employment Law Blog, 14th May 2013
Source: www.employment11kbw.com
“The Government is to remove the Employment Tribunal’s power to make recommendations to employers that go beyond the specifics of a particular discrimination claim, it has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A dental nurse who was given a written warning by bosses for eating an apple has won a case for constructive dismissal against the surgery.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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