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...

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 created a new criminal offence of corporate manslaughter. The Act enables...

On 15 February 2011, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings became the first company to be convicted of the offence of corporate manslaughter...

Employers’ insurers Further move to converting the employment tribunal to a court Case Watson v Hemingway Design Ltd (In Liquidation)...

The decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Uber BV and others v Aslam and others (February 19), can be seen as one of the most...

The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment)...

Appeals from the Employment Tribunal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) can only be brought on a point of law. Appeals to the EAT...

ET1 Completion of the ET1 form is not particularly difficult, but care must be taken. Details of the claim can be set out in a separate...

ET hearings are generally recognised as being stressful and unpredictable, particularly for unrepresented claimants. In practice,...

The current health crisis has resulted in mass dismissals for alleged redundancies. It is not unknown for employers to get rid of workers...

The key to understanding the English civil justice system including ET proceedings, is the central role of money. Almost every aspect of...

Most claims settle before they come to a hearing. Settlement avoids the stress, inconvenience and expense of a hearing and achieves the...

BREACH OF CONTRACT It has been reported that lawyers acting for employers are already preparing defences of frustration of contract...

The basic limitation period for ET claims is 3 months from the effective date of termination of employment (EDT). This is normally...

COSTS Costs are not automatically awarded in the ET against a losing party. The tribunal may award costs where it is satisfied that a...