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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...

Discrimination – time limits

Section 123(1) of the Equality Act 2010 says that discrimination claims must be brought within three months of the alleged discriminatory act or such other period that the tribunal thinks...

Holiday Pay

We have posted a separate bulletin relating to the Supreme Court decision on Holiday Pay. Employees are entitled to 5.6 weeks’ holiday under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR). Calculating...

Unfair dismissal

Can continued lateness justify dismissal? The EAT in Tijani v The House of Commons Commission  held that it could. The employee had been a cleaner at the House of Commons...

Acas guidance on suspension

Acas has published new guidance for employers on using the right to suspend as part of a disciplinary process. Suspension is often touted as a neutral act – to maintain...

Brexit and employment law

Last month saw the tabling in the House of Commons of the EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill. If brought into force, the Bill provides that all EU derived legislation...

Holiday Pay After Harpur V Brazel

The Supreme Court has recently decided (in the case of Harpur Trust v Brazel) that the method usually used in the past (for instance by ACAS) to calculate holiday pay for...

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