In NHS Manchester v Fecitt and ors the Court of Appeal decided that the EAT was wrong to hold an employer vicariously liable for its employees victimising a whistleblower. The[…]
Employers Not Vicariously Liable for Whistleblowing Victimisation by Employees
LATEST NEWS Oct 29, 2011
In Johnson-Caswell v MJB (Partnership) Ltd an employment tribunal decided that an independent financial advisor (IFA) who was purportedly self-employed was in fact an employee. In the tribunal’s view, a[…]
The EAT has decided in Cordell v Foreign and Commonwealth Office that there was neither direct disability discrimination, nor a failure to make reasonable adjustments, when the FCO refused to[…]
Like the TUC we believe that the government reforms to employment law will affect those already vulnerable in the workplace: For the TUCcommentary go to: http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace/tuc-19507-f0.cfm
The government has today announced its plan to increase the qualifying period for unfair dismissal to two years from April 2012. It claims that this will save £6 billion for[…]
The Government believes that one of the possible barriers to growth in the labour market is the stock of existing employment regulations and the flow of new ones. With this[…]