Employment News
Can your employer force you to take the COVID-19 vaccine?
Posted on: Feb 04,2021
Does your employer have a NO JAB, NO JOB Policy? In the guide Working safely...
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What is a Trade Unions duty of care when advising on Employment Disputes?
Posted on: Feb 02,2021
In the High Court case of Langley v GMB and ors, Paul Langley sued his...
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Can my employer force me to take the coronavirus vaccine?
Posted on: Jan 12,2021
Can I be forced to get the vaccine? There are three things that need to...
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New Rules on ACAS Early Conciliation
Posted on: Dec 01,2020
New rules on ACAS Early Conciliation come into force today. The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and...
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Workers’ Right To Picket Upheld By The High Court
Posted on: Nov 20,2020
Workers on strike continue to have the legal right to picket their workplace during...
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Are Paranoid Delusions a Disability?
Posted on: Oct 13,2020
Are Paranoid Delusions a Disability? Section 6 of the Equality Act 2010 (EQA 2010) says...
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New Guidelines on Face Coverings In The Workplace
Posted on: Sep 29,2020
What is a face covering? A ‘face-covering’ is anything that adequately covers the nose and...
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Gender-Fluid & Non-Binary Workers are protected by Equality Act 2010
Posted on: Sep 29,2020
Gender-Fluid & Non-Binary Workers Under Section 7 of the Equality Act 2010, a person has the...
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New Jobs Support Scheme Introduced
Posted on: Sep 28,2020
The Government says that it will not be possible to preserve every job or business...
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New Coronavirus Law for England
Posted on: Sep 28,2020
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 came into force at midnight on...
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Reforms in the Employment Tribunal
Posted on: Sep 21,2020
Employment Tribunal Reforms On 17th September 2020, the Business Minister, Paul Scully announced reforms to...
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Dismissal for reputational damage unfair if it is not a formal allegation
Posted on: Sep 12,2020
In K v L the Employment Appeal Tribunal has re-emphasised that in accordance with the...
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Foster Carers are Employees
Posted on: Sep 07,2020
In Glasgow City Council v Johnstone, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that foster...
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Having no contact with bullying managers is a Reasonable Adjustment
Posted on: Aug 27,2020
Reasonable Adjustments In the case of Mrs S Hill v Lloyds Bank PLC [2020], the...
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The Right to work in the United Kingdom
Posted on: Aug 25,2020
The right to work British citizens and those with settled status have an unconditional right...
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Furloughed Workers’ Statutory Redundancy and Notice Pay
Posted on: Aug 04,2020
If you are being made redundant, make sure that your redundancy pay is calculated on...
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Health and safety, returning to work and Coronavirus
Posted on: Jul 29,2020
health and safetywww.employeerescue.co.uk/glossary/health-and-safety/”>Health and Safety on returning to work Your employer has a legal duty...
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Employment Rights of Interns
Posted on: Jul 10,2020
Intern Aware says that a paid internship is usually a short-term period of employment aimed...
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Flexible Furlough
Posted on: Jun 30,2020
Flexible Furlough comes in tomorrow 1st July 2020. This means that you can work part-time...
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Writing an effective witness statement for the employment tribunal
Posted on: Jun 17,2020
Witness Statements in the Employment Tribunal As the person making the claim, your witness statement...
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Employment Tribunals COVID 19 Update
Posted on: Jun 01,2020
The Presidents of the Employment Tribunals (E&W, and Scotland) have published FAQs arising from the...
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Furlough Scheme Update
Posted on: Jun 01,2020
Changes to the Furlough Scheme The Government has announced the next stages of the Furlough...
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Dyson u-turns on get back to work order
Posted on: May 26,2020
According to The Guardian, Dyson has reversed an order that its office-based staff should return...
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Sacked employees of Foster Partnership awarded £114k in total
Posted on: May 26,2020
A defunct Kent firm has been ordered to pay £114,000 to former employees after a...
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Furlough scheme extended until end of October 2020
Posted on: May 12,2020
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced today that the Furlough Scheme will be extended for...
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Coronavirus Furlough Scheme: Questions & Answers
Posted on: Apr 15,2020
The Coronavirus Furlough Scheme applies to all workers who were on the PAYE payroll on...
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List of Critical Sector Workers in the Coronavirus Outbreak
Posted on: Apr 09,2020
Guidance on Critical Sector Workers The Government has published Guidance for schools, colleges and local...
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No vicarious liability for vindictive actions of employees
Posted on: Apr 07,2020
Vicarious Liability Morrisons Supermarkets are breathing a sigh of relief since the Supreme Court ruling...
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Coronavirus – Restrictions on Movement and Gatherings
Posted on: Mar 30,2020
Restrictions on movement and gatherings The government has made The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England)...
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Coronavirus and Employment Restrictions
Posted on: Mar 30,2020
Restricted Businesses The government has made The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 which...
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Coronavirus Guidance on staying at home
Posted on: Mar 24,2020
Following the Prime Minister’s coronavirus guidance at 8.30pm on 23rd March 2020, the Government has...
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Employment Tribunal Hearings during coronavirus outbreak
Posted on: Mar 19,2020
The Presidents of the Employment Tribunals (England & Wales, and Scotland) have issued Presidential Guidance...
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Courts and Tribunals COVID-19 preparation
Posted on: Mar 13,2020
Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) has provided advice and guidance for all court...
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A flawed disciplinary investigation will lead to a finding of unfair dismissal
Posted on: Mar 12,2020
In Uddin v London Borough of Ealing [2020] the investigator withheld information from the disciplinary...
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Reasonable adjustments and Provision, Criterion or Practice (PCP)
Posted on: Mar 03,2020
In disability discrimination claims, employers have a duty to make reasonable adjustments if the disabled...
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Is it fair to dismiss an employee who has been charged with a criminal offence, but not convicted?
Posted on: Feb 24,2020
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled in Allan Lafferty v Nuffield Health [2019] , that...
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Is a belief that men and women cannot change their sex a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010?
Posted on: Feb 20,2020
No said the Employment Tribunal in Maya Forstater v CGD Europe [2019]. Refusing to accept...
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I Lost my Job Over a Facebook Post – Was that Fair ?
Posted on: Feb 20,2020
[ see Social Media and Unfair Dismissal: Don’t Tweet your way to a P45] Social...
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It is not discriminatory to pay women more says Court of Appeal
Posted on: Feb 19,2020
Ali v Capita and Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police (joined cases) The...
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Court cancels suspension and orders Employee back to work
Posted on: Feb 15,2020
In Harrison v. Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, the High Court cancelled...
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Guidance on Gagging Orders at work
Posted on: Feb 11,2020
Gagging Orders://www.employeerescue.co.uk/glossary/acas-helpline/”>ACAS has pubworker new Guidance on the use of Non-disclosure Agreements also known as...
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Who regulates and enforces Employment Rights?
Posted on: Feb 06,2020
Is your answer to this question, ‘the state’? If it is, then you are...
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Beards and dress codes in the limelight
Posted on: Feb 04,2020
In R Sethi v Elements Personnel Services Limited, an Employment Tribunal said that a ‘no...
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Coronavirus and Work – Keeping Safe
Posted on: Jan 31,2020
The coronavirus has been identified in a growing number of countries, including Canada, the...
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Post -Brexit employment rights
Posted on: Jan 28,2020
Having now left the European Union, the question arises as to what happens to employment...
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Legal right to paid parental bereavement leave
Posted on: Jan 24,2020
The legal right to paid parental bereavement leave is called “Jack’s Law” in memory of...
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Reasonable adjustments should be made for sickness absence triggers
Posted on: Jan 23,2020
In Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust v Ward the Employment Appeal Tribunal...
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EHRC Guidance on Sexual Harassment and Harassment at Work
Posted on: Jan 21,2020
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published new technical Guidance on Sexual Harassment...
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National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage Rates 2020
Posted on: Jan 14,2020
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage Rates are set to increase from 1st April...
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Is there a difference between strong management and bullying at work?
Posted on: Dec 20,2019
ACAS describes bullying at work as ‘offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting behaviour, an abuse or...
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Consequences of a flawed disciplinary investigation
Posted on: Dec 13,2019
Your employer must be procedurally fair during a disciplinary investigation. The case of Retirement Security...
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You can be a worker or an employee even if you’re paid through your own limited company
Posted on: Dec 11,2019
People sometimes work through an intermediary, such as their own personal services company. Companies generally...
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Proving discrimination
Posted on: Dec 06,2019
Having rock solid evidence of discrimination is important because it is up to you to ...
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New EU Protection for Whistleblowers
Posted on: Dec 02,2019
On 7 October 2019 the European Council approved the Whistleblower Protection Directive. The Directive guarantees...
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Labour’s Manifesto promises for workers
Posted on: Nov 26,2019
The Labour Party has published its Manifesto for the 12 December 2019 general election. Policies...
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Whistleblowing Protection
Posted on: Nov 05,2019
Whistleblowers have the right not to be dismissed or subjected to detrimental treatment because they...
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Best Practice Guidelines on Confidentiality Agreements in Discrimination Cases
Posted on: Nov 04,2019
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has this week published new Guidance: The use of...
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The Stalking Protection Act 2019
Posted on: Oct 11,2019
This new Act provides stalking protection orders. These are civil orders available on application by...
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Unfair Dismissal Time Limits in the Employment Tribunal
Posted on: Sep 10,2019
Employment Tribunal Time Limit Extensions There are two kinds of time limit for every Tribunal...
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Health is everyone’s business
Posted on: Sep 03,2019
The Government has published Health is everyone’s business: proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss, a...
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Unlawful inducement of trade union members
Posted on: Aug 31,2019
Inducements to trade union members to forgo collective bargaining are normally unlawful and employers...
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Measures announced to combat Sexual Harassment at Work
Posted on: Jul 23,2019
Measures announced to combat Sexual Harassment at Work The Women and Equalities Select Committee reported...
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EQUAL PAY: COURT OF APPEAL RULES IN FAVOUR OF ASDA EMPLOYEES
Posted on: Jul 23,2019
Brierley and Ors v Asda Stores Ltd [2019] EWCA CIV 44 Over 7,000 predominantly female...
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