An employment tribunal has awarded £32,000 to an employee who was unfairly dismissed after “liking” a Facebook comment about his...
Stephen Simpson
Stephen Simpson
Stephen Simpson is Principal HR Strategy and Practice Editor at Brightmine. His areas of responsibility include the policies and documents and law reports. After obtaining a law degree and training to be a solicitor, he moved into publishing, initially with Butterworths. He joined Brightmine in its early days in 2001.
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An employment tribunal has awarded a Big Fat Gypsy Wedding dress designer more than £8,000 in compensation from her former...
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An employment tribunal has awarded a temporary agency worker over £10,000 after she was not paid the same after 12...
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We round up 10 examples of straightforward reasonable adjustments that have arisen in case law.
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An employment tribunal has awarded a policewoman more than £37,000 after finding that the Metropolitan Police committed race and sex...
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An employment tribunal ruling has revealed a Darlington call centre’s culture of practical jokes, which culminated in a worker being...
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The duty on employers to make reasonable adjustments can arise at any point during the recruitment process, from advertising the...
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An employment tribunal has ruled that a former Big Brother professor was unfairly dismissed for a first offence after he...
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Was a Christian employee harassed by overhearing expletives that included the words “Jesus Christ” and “God” in a workplace? That...
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An employment tribunal has found that former BBC employee John Linwood, who claimed that ...
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An employment tribunal has ordered the London Borough of Bromley to pay more than £64,000 to 18 employees offered cash...
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We round up an eclectic list of beliefs that claimants have argued constitute “philosophical beliefs” under equality legislation before employment tribunals...
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Reports suggest that Sharon Shoesmith, former director of children’s services for the London Borough of Haringey, has been awarded more...
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Can a public sector worker's passionate view that his employer should not waste public money count as a "philosophical belief" under discrimination legislation?
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Stephen Simpson rounds up last week's tribunal cases to make the headlines...