The UK has introduced new laws increasing the rights of temporary workers. Linda Goldman and Joan Lewis find out what this means for firms hiring agency staff. There was a[…]
The Government has announced its plans for the ‘most radical reform to the employment law system for decades’. The wide-ranging changes, which include reform of the tribunal system, the introduction[…]
In Fraser v Southwest London St George’s Mental Health Trust the EAT has held that an employee on long-term sick leave must request annual leave in accordance with Reg 15[…]
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[…]