The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2014 has been published and confirms the annual changes to compensation limits which are as follows: An increase in the maximum Compensatory Award for unfair dismissal from £74,200 to £76,574 albeit the cap of one years pay remains, such that the lesser of the two applies. An increase […]
Acas Early Conciliation 2014
The anticipated Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedures) have been published and confirm that Early Conciliation will come into force on 6th April 2014 The new legislation means that individuals who wish to bring a claim against their employer in an Employment Tribunal will first need to contact ACAS. It is however […]
Zero hours in the news again
The topic of zero hours has been in the news again with three developments. Firstly, consultation on the topic is currently underway and is due to close on the 13th March 2014. The points for discussion are situations where workers on zero-hours contracts are subject to a clause preventing them from working elsewhere and secondly […]
Are Tribunal Fees here to Stay?
The High Court has delivered its Judgment on the much published case of Unison’s judicial review of the Tribunal fees. The claim failed but Unison has publically stated that it intends to appeal against the decision. The full Judgment makes interesting reading as the Court grabbles with the balancing of the rights of those bringing […]
Knowledge of disability
It has been long established that in order for an employer to owe a duty to make reasonable adjustments to a disabled employee, the employer must know or be reasonably expected to know that the employee in question suffers from a disability. Without this they do not know that the disabled employee is likely to […]
The self-employed and the Equality Act 2010
The EAT recently held in Halawi v World Duty Free that the Equality Act 2010 did not apply to Ms Halawi who provided services to World Duty Free through a limited Company. In order for the Equality Act to apply a contract personally to do the work was required and in this case the Claimant […]