Bowls of fresh fruit and mindfulness sessions are becoming increasingly common in the workplace as employers try to promote the wellbeing of their staff. A successful wellbeing strategy can improve employee attendance and retention, as well as productivity. It can also help shield you from compensation claims brought by employees for stress-related conditions which may[…]
Looking ahead: Brexit and October’s changes to employment law With only months to go until the UK leaves the EU, businesses and individuals are trying to plan for Brexit amidst uncertainty. Zoe Lagadec, employment law expert with Mulberry’s Employment Law Solicitors in London, looks at what we know about the likely affect of Brexit[…]
Settlement agreements are legally binding contracts in which one person, usually an employee, agrees to waive their rights to bring a claim in the employment tribunal or a court in return for another person, typically their employer, agreeing to do something, such as paying them a sum of money and agreeing to give them[…]
Supreme Court Decides that Bakery did Not Discriminate Against Gay Couple in Gay Cake Case
LATEST NEWS Oct 10, 2018
In Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and ors, the Supreme Court has held that a bakery did not discriminate against a gay man when it refused to provide him with a cake bearing a message of support for same-sex marriage. It held that the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal was wrong to conclude that[…]
Reprieve for Care Sector After Verdict on Workers Who Sleep in
LATEST NEWS, Our Services Sep 21, 2018
The financial pressures on the care sector are never out of the news for long. However, employers providing round-the-clock supervision or care to the elderly and infirm, vulnerable adults and young people are breathing a sigh of relief following a recent judgment on entitlement to the national minimum wage. Zoe Lagadec explains that most workers[…]
In X v Y Ltd, the EAT has held that legal advice privilege should be disapplied in relation to an e-mail sent by a lawyer to an employer client in which the lawyer advised how to ‘cloak’ an employee’s dismissal for making complaints of disability discrimination and asking for reasonable adjustments as a redundancy dismissal.[…]
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Employees Who Continue To Work Following Pay Freeze Did not Agree to Variation
LATEST NEWS Apr 20, 2018
In Abrahall and ors v Nottingham City Council and anor, the Court of Appeal has held that a group of employees who continued to work following their employer’s imposition of a pay freeze did not thereby agree to a variation of contract. Although the employees did not bring tribunal claims until two years later, they[…]
National Living Wage National Living Wage for workers aged 25 increased to £7.83 per hour. The national minimum wage (NMW) rates are now: from £7.05 to £7.38 for 21 to 24 year olds from £5.60 to £5.90 for 18 to 20 year olds from £4.05 to £4.20 for 16 and 17 year olds from £3.50[…]