If you think that you have been badly treated at work, for example by being dismissed, made redundant or subject to discrimination, the...

Employment tribunals (ET) were created as industrial tribunals by the Industrial Training Act 1964. Industrial tribunals were judicial...

The question of injury caused by noise at work deserves separate treatment because it has been the subject of a distinct line of cases....

CHAPTER 2: NEGLIGENCE Duty of Care Manufacturer Davie v New Merton Board Mills (1958) A drift (a tapered steel bar) was made by an...

Employment tribunal procedure The Report of the Donovan Commission in 1968 stated that the aim of the industrial tribunal (as it was then...

Information technology There is a movement, fortunately not currently particularly successful, towards the replacement of lawyers with...

Workplace stress As well as legal duties under statutes and regulations, employers have obligations under duties imposed by the common...

Complexity To reach a conclusion on this matter involved the court in wading through a monstrous legislative morass, staggering from...

Currently, British employment law is a sprawling mass of statutes, regulations and decided cases. The leading textbook – Harvey –...

Reasonable foreseeability Reasonable conduct by employer Ramwell v Tesco Stores plc (2000) HSB 289: 23, Manchester county court R was...

Duty to provide safe system of work Two nervous breakdowns Walker v Northumberland County Council [1995] IRLR 35, High Court W, a senior...

Common Law: Formally Reported Cases Duty of care Foreseeability Fraser v State Hospitals Board for Scotland (2000) July 11, Scottish...

Is the relationship between employer and employee in itself necessarily stressful? If one takes the view that the relationship between...

Bullying The dictionary definition of “bully” is a person who makes him or herself a terror to the weak or defenceless. Bullying at work...

Physical symptoms It is generally accepted that workplace stress can result in physical symptoms, for example: Cardio-vascular disease...

TERMINOLOGY Definition of stress The widest definition of stress is anything which makes a person tense, angry, frustrated or angry. This...

General criminal law There are no reported prosecutions for specific criminal offences in relation to workplace stress. In relation to...

Fundamental breach Unilateral salary cut Case Mostyn v S and P Casuals Ltd [2018] UKEAT/0158/17, Employment Appeal Tribunal Facts M, a...

EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT Trade union membership Case Oni v Unison Trade Union [2018] ICR 1111, EAT Facts O was a nurse employed by a hospital...

UNFAIR DISMISSAL Internal appeal procedure Case Patel v Folkestone Nursing Home Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 1843 Facts P was dismissed by F in...