“An employment tribunal hearing the first claim for unfair dismissal on the grounds of caste discrimination has collapsed after information handed to the judge by police led the judge to recuse herself from the case.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A school dinner lady who was unfairly sacked after telling a seven-year-old girl’s parents that their daughter had been tied to a fence and hit with a skipping rope has won her two-year battle for compensation.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Judicial guidance regarding the meaning and application of s.98(4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 in the context of misconduct dismissals is well settled and familiar.”
Littleton Chambers, 7th February 2013
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
“There were some statistics that private equity pioneer Adrian Beecroft did not include in his highly controversial report on employment law published last year. The number of claims brought by employees in employment tribunals fell from 236,000 in 2009-10 to 186,000 in 2011-12. The number of claims for both sex and age discrimination has almost halved. And the median award for most types of claim remains low, at around £5,000 (two months’ average pay). Given that these figures relate to a period of acute economic turbulence, they are counterintuitive.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has been criticised by an employment tribunal judge over the unfair dismissal of an award-winning journalist at the title.”
The Guardian, 21st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A McDonald’s waitress won £3,000 compensation today for being fired after sprinkling too much chocolate on an ice-cream.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Turner v East Midlands Trains Ltd: [2012] EWCA Civ 1470; [2012] WLR (D) 353
“The procedures in section 98 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 whereby an employment tribunal had to consider whether in an unfair dismissal case the employer acted fairly within a range of reasonable responses open to the reasonable employer did not fall short of the procedural safeguards required by article 8 of the European Convention.”
WLR Daily, 16th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A lap dancer who wants to make an unfair dismissal claim is waiting to hear whether she has won a legal fight with a firm that runs ‘gentlemen’s clubs’.”
The Independent, 13th November 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The BNP has been a relentless opponent of Human Rights Act and its manifesto for the 2010 General Election made no less than three separate declarations of its intention to scrap the Act and abrogate the European Convention of Human Rights which it described charmingly as being, ‘exploited to abuse Britain’s hospitality by the world’s scroungers.'”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th November 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The European Court of Human Rights today released its judgment in the case of Redfearn v UK, and held that the UK had failed through its domestic law adequately to protect the right of Mr Redfearn, a British National Party councillor, to freedom of association under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Employment Law Blog, 6th November 2012
Source: www.employment11kbw.com
“A Bradford bus diver should not have been sacked for being a member of the British National Party, the European court of human rights has ruled.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two drama teachers were sacked for letting GCSE students perform in a play involving depictions of rape and child abuse.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A tribunal cannot rely on additional matters not taken into account by an employer when deciding whether a dismissal is fair, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Government plans to cap unfair dismissal compensation will not make it easier to fire employees. It’ll just make it cheaper.”
The Guardian, 17th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government’s latest announcements on employment law reform, including a major reduction in the level of compensation that can be awarded if a worker is successful in bringing a claim for unfair dismissal, target the ‘compensation culture’ that the current system encourages, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Ministers will today announce a consultation on reducing the upper limit on compensation payments for unfair dismissal from its current level of more than £72,000.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A paramedic who allegedly slapped an elderly patient three times across the face was not unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has ruled.”
BBC News, 12th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“For the benefit of anyone who has not worked in this area previously or recently, I shall summarise the basics. The relevant legal rules are found in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/246) (‘TUPE’) which came into force on 6 April 2006. The most important change from the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (SI 1981/1794) has been the expansion of the definition of ‘a relevant transfer’ to encompass a service provision change as well as a transfer of an economic entity which retains its identity. This is a complex area of law, in which it is often hard to discern any broad principle which indicates the correct answer to the case on your desk: it is essential always to keep referring back to and re-reading the TUPE regulations themselves.”
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11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
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