WORKERS: HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECTION Employment Rights Act 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order...

England’s coronavirus ban on evictions came to an end on May 32, 2021. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has reported that 400,000 private...

MISCELLANEOUS CASES Written notice Haywood v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2018] UKSC 22, Supreme Court The Trust...

TIME OFF TO LOOK FOR WORK Employees with at least two years continuous employment are entitled to reasonable time off during a redundancy...

Disability Disabled workers may be selected for redundancy because of the employer’s failure to make reasonable adjustments to allow for...

Sex Discrimination Dykes v Premier Risk Service LLP (2014) Eq Opp Rev 253:30, Leeds ET D was employed as a part-time health and safety...

Pregnancy/maternity dismissals Redundancy dismissal because of pregnancy or maternity is automatically unfair. No minimum qualifying...

REDUNDANCY & DISCRIMINATION Age Discrimination Kirk v Citibank 3200291/2018, East London Employment Tribunal Facts Citibank made K...

Agreed procedures Jackson v General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Co Ltd [1976] IRLR 338, EAT:The meaning of agreed procedure, relating...

Unfair selection · The employer is under a duty to choose a fair pool from which to select redundant workers. Fulcrum Pharma...

Elements of consultation Failure to consult with an individual may make dismissal unfair but compensation may be reduced (Polkey...

DAMAGES Lost years of earnings Case Head v Culver Heating Co Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 34 Facts H was the managing director of EMSL, his own...

· Automatically unfair dismissal for specified reasons · No genuine redundancy situation · Failure to consult · ...

SHORT-TERM WORK & LAY-OFFS Temporary Lay-Offs Workers can claim statutory redundancy pay that they are eligible for and have been...

Suitable Alternative Employment Unreasonable refusal of suitable alternative employment results in loss of statutory redundancy pay. S....

Source: section 135, ERA: employee has basic right to redundancy payment Those excluded from payments: · Independent contractors · ...

Closure of the workplace · An employee is dismissed for redundancy if it is attributable wholly or mainly to the fact that the...

The use of the word “fascism” has become so debased that it is now virtually meaningless. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines...

RACE DISCRIMINATION Harassment Stale training Case Allay (UK) Ltd v Gehlen UKEAT/0031/20/AT Facts G, a man of Indian origin, was employed...

AGE DISCRIMINATION New pension scheme Case London Fire Commissioner v Sargeant and others UKEAT/0137/17/LA Facts In 2015 a new pension...