The Welfare Benefits Uprating Order 2014 SI 2014/147 has now been published. The Order sets the rates for statutory sick pay and statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay from April 2014. The changes that come into force on 6 April 2014 are: • an increase in statutory sick pay from £86.70 to £87.55, and •[…]
Concerns about driving in the snow can amount to a whistleblowing ‘qualifying disclosure’
LATEST NEWS Jan 28, 2014
In Norbrook Laboratories (GB) Ltd v Shaw the EAT has held that a manager’s concerns about employees driving in snowy conditions could amount to a ‘qualifying disclosure’ about health and safety for the purpose of whistleblowing protection, despite being expressed in three separate e-mails to two different recipients. S managed a sales team whose work[…]
In Portnykh v Nomura International plc the EAT has held that negotiations between an employee and an employer over a settlement agreement were inadmissible as evidence in the employee’s whistleblowing dismissal claim under the ‘without prejudice’ rule. The EAT also held that the rule should not be disapplied on the ground of ‘unambiguous impropriety’ simply[…]
Can an employment tribunal decide that it is within the range of reasonable responses for an employer to dismiss an employee taking into account a final written warning when an appeal against it remained outstanding, without hearing evidence regarding the imposition of the warning? Yes, holds the EAT in Rooney v Dundee City Council The[…]
