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[…]
Supreme Court Decides that Bakery did Not Discriminate Against Gay Couple in Gay Cake Case
LATEST NEWS Oct 10, 2018
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[…]
1. Do I have to pay employees who cannot get to work because of bad weather? In principle, you can refuse to pay an employee who cannot get to work because of severe weather such as heavy snow and ice. This is because an employee who is not working is not performing their contract of employment, and[…]
The High Court has held that an employer was vicariously liable for the actions of an employee who disclosed the personal information of around 100,000 colleagues on the internet. Although the disclosure took place outside working hours and from the employee’s personal computer, there was a sufficient connection between the employee’s employment and the wrongful[…]
Benkharbouche v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs The Supreme Court has held that the State Immunity Act 1978, which confer immunity on foreign states in respect of employment claims brought by embassy staff, are incompatible with the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights[…]