Robert Spicer
Unfair dismissal: gross misconduct
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Gross misconduct Case Hope v British Medical Association EA-2021-000187-JOJ Facts H, an employee of BMA, brought a...
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Robert Spicer
Oct 22, 20212 min read
More new employment cases
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Costs Case Ibezakio v York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Locum Placement Group Ltd EA 2019-000145-LA...
Robert Spicer
Oct 14, 20212 min read
New employment cases: package holidays and disability discrimination
CONTRACT Tour operators Package holiday contracts Case X v Kuoni Travel Ltd [2021] UKSC 34, Supreme Court Facts Ms X was on a package...
Anastasiia Tolmacheva
Sep 27, 20213 min read
GPT- 3 and how it can revolutionise the legal industry?
GPT-3 is a piece of software that can predict what the next word will be in the specific text. It can repeatedly do that, to the point...
Robert Spicer
Aug 27, 20211 min read
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS
Case management decision Access to documents Case Kular v Atos IT Services UK Ltd (2021) UKEAT 0101/20/2901, Employment Appeal Tribunal...
Robert Spicer
Aug 23, 20211 min read
Employment tribunals procedure: new case
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS ET1 Form Amendment Case Marrufo v Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council [2020] UKEAT 0103/20/0312, Employment...
Robert Spicer
Jun 24, 20213 min read
WORKERS: HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECTION
WORKERS: HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECTION Employment Rights Act 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order...
Robert Spicer
Jun 18, 20213 min read
EVICTION AND THE LAWYER
England’s coronavirus ban on evictions came to an end on May 32, 2021. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has reported that 400,000 private...
Robert Spicer
Jun 14, 20214 min read
Redundancy: significant cases
MISCELLANEOUS CASES Written notice Haywood v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2018] UKSC 22, Supreme Court The Trust...
Robert Spicer
Jun 10, 20213 min read
Redundancy: time off to look for work
TIME OFF TO LOOK FOR WORK Employees with at least two years continuous employment are entitled to reasonable time off during a redundancy...
Robert Spicer
Jun 7, 20215 min read
Redundancy and disability discrimination
Disability Disabled workers may be selected for redundancy because of the employer’s failure to make reasonable adjustments to allow for...
Robert Spicer
Jun 4, 20215 min read
Redundancy and sex discrimination
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...
Robert Spicer
May 31, 20212 min read
Pregnancy, maternity and race discrimination and redundancy
Pregnancy/maternity dismissals Redundancy dismissal because of pregnancy or maternity is automatically unfair. No minimum qualifying...
Robert Spicer
May 28, 20212 min read
Redundancy & Discrimination
REDUNDANCY & DISCRIMINATION Age Discrimination Kirk v Citibank 3200291/2018, East London Employment Tribunal Facts Citibank made K...
Robert Spicer
May 24, 20213 min read
UNFAIR REDUNDANCY DISMISSAL: MORE CASES
Agreed procedures Jackson v General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Co Ltd [1976] IRLR 338, EAT:The meaning of agreed procedure, relating...
Robert Spicer
May 22, 20217 min read
Unfair redundancy dismissal: more cases
Unfair selection · The employer is under a duty to choose a fair pool from which to select redundant workers. Fulcrum Pharma...
Robert Spicer
May 17, 20215 min read
Redundancy and unfair dismissal: key cases
Elements of consultation Failure to consult with an individual may make dismissal unfair but compensation may be reduced (Polkey...
Robert Spicer
May 14, 20213 min read
RECENT EMPLOYMENT-RELATED CASES
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...
Robert Spicer
May 14, 20216 min read
UNFAIR REDUNDANCY DISMISSAL
· Automatically unfair dismissal for specified reasons · No genuine redundancy situation · Failure to consult · ...
Robert Spicer
May 10, 20212 min read
More redundancy law and practice
SHORT-TERM WORK & LAY-OFFS Temporary Lay-Offs Workers can claim statutory redundancy pay that they are eligible for and have been...
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