In BBC v Roden, the EAT held that a tribunal was wrong to take into account the risk of the public believing in the truth of unproven allegations of sexual harassment against an unfair dismissal claimant when deciding to extend an anonymity order. The public interest in open justice in such a case outweighed the[…]
Risk of Belief by Public of Unproven Sexual Harassment Claim not Enough to Preserve Anonymity
LATEST NEWS Jun 26, 2015
Travelling Time to First Appointment is Working Time for Peripatetic Workers
LATEST NEWS Jun 17, 2015
Time spent by workers (who are not assigned to a fixed place of work) who spend travelling from home to their first customer, and from the last customer back to their homes, does count as ‘working time’ for the purposes of the Working Time Directive. In the recent case of Advocate General Bot in Federación[…]
Provisions in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 that render exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts unenforceable come into force today (26 May). Various other employment measures have also been brought into force, including an increase in the maximum financial penalty for underpayment of the national minimum wage to £20,000 per worker. The Act[…]
In Cranwell v Cullen the EAT decided that the ACAS Conciliation requirements must be met before a Tribunal can hear a claim, even if this resulted in apparent unfairness. The facts in this case were simple, the Claimant submitted her claim to an employment tribunal without previously complying with the requirement, in s.18A of the[…]
Genuinely held Religious Belief no defence to Sexual Orientation Discrimination
LATEST NEWS May 20, 2015
In an unusually political case decided this week, the Court had to consider the problem of apparently conflicting non-discrimination rights. In the “Ashers Bakery” case, the Defendents, owners of a bakery, refused to fulfil an order from the claimant, who had requested they make a cake showing a slogan to support same-sex marriage. The claimant[…]
There’s just a week to go until Election Day. Party manifestos are online for comparison and have been scrutinised via the Leaders’ Debates on TV. Elections bring the economy into sharper focus and inevitably lead to changes in employment rights and responsibilities – so which party has the right approach to ensuring that labour rights[…]
Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Lock v British Gas (25 March 2015) The Court of Justice of the European Union is clear on the principle behind the calculation of holiday pay which is that: “The purpose of providing payment for that leave is to put the worker, during such leave, in a position which[…]
ACAS have helpfully published a Timetable of Key Events for 2015 Shared Parental Leave For parents of children born or matched for adoption on or after 5 April 2015 Under this new system parents will be able to choose how they share the care of their child during the first year after birth. Mothers will[…]
As Emma Barnett, the Women’s Editor at the Telegraph put it, Silicon Valley just got “darker.” Corporate giants Apple and Google recently announced that they will pay up to $20,000 to their female employees to freeze their eggs. Whilst these measures appear at first glance to be progressive, to be aimed at enabling women to[…]
In Williams v Leeds United Football Club, the High Court has held that an employer was entitled to summarily dismiss an employee, who was already serving 12 months’ notice of redundancy, when it discovered that, five years previously, he had forwarded a pornographic e-mail to a junior colleague and two external contacts. The employer was[…]