The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has made a Freedom of Information request for information on the number of employment tribunal claims relating to the right to request[…]
Employers Not Vicariously Liable for Whistleblowing Victimisation by Employees
LATEST NEWS Oct 29, 2011
In NHS Manchester v Fecitt and ors the Court of Appeal decided that the EAT was wrong to hold an employer vicariously liable for its employees victimising a whistleblower. The[…]
In Johnson-Caswell v MJB (Partnership) Ltd an employment tribunal decided that an independent financial advisor (IFA) who was purportedly self-employed was in fact an employee. In the tribunal’s view, a[…]
The EAT has decided in Cordell v Foreign and Commonwealth Office that there was neither direct disability discrimination, nor a failure to make reasonable adjustments, when the FCO refused to[…]
Like the TUC we believe that the government reforms to employment law will affect those already vulnerable in the workplace: For the TUCcommentary go to: http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace/tuc-19507-f0.cfm
The government has today announced its plan to increase the qualifying period for unfair dismissal to two years from April 2012. It claims that this will save £6 billion for[…]
The Government believes that one of the possible barriers to growth in the labour market is the stock of existing employment regulations and the flow of new ones. With this[…]
On 1 October 2011 the Agency Workers Regulations will come into force. The Regulations entitle agency workers to certain new rights after 12 weeks in the same role. In readiness[…]
The annual statistics for employment tribunals and the EAT for April 2010 to March 2011 have been published. The statistics show an 8 per cent fall in the number of[…]
The EAT has decided in the case of Wray v JW Lees & Co, that whether time spent by a temporary pub manager on the employer’s premises overnight fell to[…]