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    Five important employment law cases in 2016… and five more to come

    by Stephen Simpson 21 Jul 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 21 Jul 2016

    Your annual summer round-up of the most important employment law cases 2016 has seen so far, and those still to come…

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Case law
    • Employment tribunals

    Large costs award: claimants secretly recorded employer’s legal advice

    by Stephen Simpson 18 Jul 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 18 Jul 2016

    An employment tribunal threw out four claimants’ cases and ordered them to pay a total of £69,484 in costs after ...

    • Europe
    • Case law
    • Belgium

    Employers cannot ban Muslim headscarves, says Advocate General

    by Stephen Simpson 13 Jul 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 13 Jul 2016

    An employer cannot have a blanket ban on religious dress that prevents a Muslim woman from wearing an Islamic headscarf...

    • Case law
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    • Holidays and holiday pay

    Lock holiday pay case heard at Court of Appeal

    by Qian Mou 13 Jul 2016
    by Qian Mou 13 Jul 2016

    Lock and another v British Gas Trading Ltd, the highly anticipated case on including commission payments in holiday pay calculations,...

    • Case law
    • Trade unions

    Trade union subscriptions: union could enforce check off against employer

    by Kate Hodgkiss 11 Jul 2016
    by Kate Hodgkiss 11 Jul 2016

    The High Court held that a trade union is entitled to enforce check-off provisions where these arrangements form part of...

    • Case law
    • Employment tribunals

    Employment tribunal judgments to go online

    by Personnel Today 27 Jun 2016
    by Personnel Today 27 Jun 2016

    HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has announced that new employment tribunal decisions will be made publicly available online from...

    • Case law
    • Employment law
    • Discrimination

    Asda fails to block mass equal pay tribunal claim

    by Stephen Simpson 23 Jun 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 23 Jun 2016

    Supermarket giant Asda has failed in its bid to have a mass equal pay claim against it transferred from the...

    • Case law
    • Race discrimination
    • Modern slavery

    Supreme Court: give tribunals power to award compensation for modern slavery

    by Stephen Simpson 22 Jun 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 22 Jun 2016

    Remedies under the Modern Slavery Act should be extended to allow employment tribunals to award compensation to the victims of...

    • Case law
    • Health insurance
    • TUPE

    TUPE transfers and long-term sick leave – appeal confirmed

    by Personnel Today 14 Jun 2016
    by Personnel Today 14 Jun 2016

    A senior judge has granted permission for the TUPE case BT Managed Services Ltd v Edwards and another to go...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Dismissal

    Dismissed worker argued racist term was “street talk”

    by Stephen Simpson 9 Jun 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 9 Jun 2016

    An employment tribunal held that an employee was fairly dismissed after using a racist term at work, despite his arguments...

    • Case law
    • Constructive dismissal
    • Sex discrimination

    Chelsea FC doctor Eva Carneiro settles constructive dismissal claim

    by Rob Moss 7 Jun 2016
    by Rob Moss 7 Jun 2016

    Former Chelsea FC team doctor Eva Carneiro has settled her employment tribunal claim against the club and Jose Mourinho for...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Case law
    • Disability discrimination

    Disability: NHS worker’s claim over blood phobia rejected

    by Ryan Stringer 7 Jun 2016
    by Ryan Stringer 7 Jun 2016

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has rejected a reasonable adjustments claim by an NHS worker with severe phobias of blood...

    • Case law
    • Health and safety
    • Whistleblowing

    Morgan v Royal Mencap Society: Protected disclosure in public interest

    by Naomi Clarkson 2 Jun 2016
    by Naomi Clarkson 2 Jun 2016

    In Morgan v Royal Mencap Society, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an employment tribunal was wrong to strike...

    • Case law
    • Europe
    • Belgium

    Employers can ban Muslim headscarves at work, says EU lawyer

    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016

    An employer can prevent a Muslim employee from wearing an Islamic headscarf if the ban is based on a general...

    • Collective redundancy
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Insolvency

    Redundancy consultation: protective awards for City Link staff

    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016

    An employment tribunal has made protective awards of 90 days’ pay over City Link’s failure to carry out a redundancy...

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