· 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...

UNFAIR DISMISSAL Refusal to wear face mask Case Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd (2021) 3201960/2020, East London Employment Tribunal Facts K...

British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...

The Shrewsbury Pickets In the case of Warren and others v R [2021] EWCA Crim 413, Court of Appeal, the facts, in summary, were that all...

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...

The effect of Covid-19 on a wide range of contracts, including employment contracts, consumer agreements and insurance, has yet to be...

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

Police removal of plants from cannabis factory; personal protective equipment. The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992...

Most civil claims for compensation for personal injury, and many employment tribunal claims, are settled by compromise agreements before...

British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...

The appeal to the Supreme Court concerned claims by 40,000 claimants in Nigeria. They alleged that they had suffered damage resulting...

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...