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Tribunal Watch

The latest on employment tribunals from the XpertHR legal team. We provide a weekly round-up of the latest tribunal cases to hit the headlines, with links to in-depth analyses on XpertHR and key articles from national and regional press coverage. Tribunal Watch began life in 2010 as an XpertHR blog – view older posts here.


    • Tribunal Watch
    • Case law
    • Dismissal

    Fair dismissal for failure to produce evidence of right to work in UK

    by Stephen Simpson 22 Nov 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 22 Nov 2016

    An employment tribunal held that an employee was fairly dismissed after failing to produce evidence of his right to work...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Dismissal
    • Overtime

    Fair dismissal for refusal to work Christmas overtime

    by Stephen Simpson 9 Nov 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 9 Nov 2016

    An employment tribunal held that a food company employee was fairly dismissed after she refused to do overtime in the...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Pregnancy and maternity discrimination
    • Flexible working

    Tribunals accept limits to flexible working after maternity leave

    by Stephen Simpson 17 Oct 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 17 Oct 2016

    In two recent unsuccessful cases, employment tribunals accepted that there is no absolute obligation on employers to accept new mothers’...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Age discrimination
    • Recruitment & retention

    No age discrimination against “overqualified” job applicant

    by Stephen Simpson 10 Oct 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 10 Oct 2016

    An employment tribunal has held that an employer that rejected a job candidate for a marketing role for being overqualified...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    Discrimination arising from disability: big payouts by employment tribunals

    by Stephen Simpson 30 Aug 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 30 Aug 2016

    In a number of recent disability discrimination claims, employment tribunals have found employers guilty of “discrimination arising from disability” under...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Employment contracts
    • Recruitment & retention

    Withdrawal of job offer made by agency costs employer £3,000

    by Stephen Simpson 21 Aug 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 21 Aug 2016

    An employment tribunal has ordered an employer to pay breach of contract damages after it withdrew a job offer made...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Health and safety
    • Dismissal

    Greggs baker fairly dismissed for not washing hands

    by Stephen Simpson 4 Aug 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 4 Aug 2016

    An employment tribunal has held that Greggs fairly dismissed an experienced baker who did not wash his hands before returning...

    • 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 ...

    • 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...

    • 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...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Criminal records
    • Dismissal

    Religious discrimination: Christian teacher’s dismissal for refusal to divorce sex offender

    by Stephen Simpson 23 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 23 May 2016

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a Christian employee, dismissed for not divorcing her husband when he was...

    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Dismissal

    Fair dismissal of line manager who refused workplace drug test

    by Stephen Simpson 16 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 16 May 2016

    An employment tribunal rejected an unfair dismissal claim by a line manager who was sacked when he refused to take...

    • Absence
    • Tribunal Watch
    • NHS

    Employer withdrew job offer due to sickness absence

    by Stephen Simpson 9 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 9 May 2016

    An employment tribunal held that a nurse was the victim of discrimination arising from disability, after her prospective employer withdrew...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Stress
    • Disability discrimination

    Dismissal over erratic behaviour was disability discrimination

    by Stephen Simpson 29 Apr 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 29 Apr 2016

    An employment tribunal has held that it was discrimination arising from disability for an employee with mental health problems to...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Bullying and harassment

    Disability discrimination: “pull yourself together” comment to employee with depression

    by Stephen Simpson 15 Apr 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 15 Apr 2016

    An employment tribunal has held that a director’s comment to an employee with depression that “everyone gets depressed sometimes, you...

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