Category:  Employment Law

Protection from dismissal

Sections 100(1)(d) and (e) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 provide employees with protection from dismissal if they leave the workplace, refuse to return to it, or take other steps...

COT3 agreements

COT3 settlement agreements, negotiated and arranged by Acas, can be a cheap and easy way to settle employment tribunal claims. The Court of Appeal has considered a case where an...

DWP rate increases

The DWP  has published its annual increases for various employment related pay rates which will take effect in April 2023. Statutory maternity, paternity, shared parental and parental bereavement pay will...

Exclusivity clauses

Exclusivity clauses are terms which prevent an employee from taking up work elsewhere or require an employee to ask permission before working for another business. These clauses have been unenforceable...

Holiday Pay (Harpur Trust v Brazel)

The Government has launched a consultation on calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers. It proposes introducing a holiday entitlement reference period to ensure that holiday entitlement and...

Football and the Equality Act 2010

Bill Shankly, the first great manager of Liverpool FC, is quoted as saying: ‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that...

Covid and disability status

Most employers will have experienced an employee who suffers badly with a bout of Covid, and which then develops into post-Covid-19 syndrome, or ‘long Covid’. An employment tribunal has looked...

Employment tribunal claims – procedure

Employers may be familiar with employees seeking extensions of time to lodge late employment tribunal claims, for a variety of reasons. In MTN-1 v Daly, the EAT was faced with...

Legal privilege

Communication between a client and their solicitors for the purposes of getting legal advice, and any documents prepared for the purposes of litigation, are ‘privileged’. This means that they do...

TUPE

When there is a TUPE transfer, all of the transferor’s (the original employer) rights, powers, duties and liabilities connected to the transferring employee’s contract of employment transfer to the transferee...

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