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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
    • Dismissal
    • Unfair dismissal

    Some-other-substantial-reason dismissal when client refused to have employee on site was fair

    by Stephen Simpson 13 Oct 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 13 Oct 2015

    An employer fairly dismissed an employee for “some other substantial reason” when the client refused to have her back on...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Discipline
    • Discipline and grievances

    Right to be accompanied: bus company vetoed drivers’ union rep

    by Stephen Simpson 8 Oct 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 8 Oct 2015

    It was a breach of the right to be accompanied for an employer to refuse to allow a trade union...

    • Age discrimination
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Sexual harassment

    Young adults win age discrimination claims over unfair criticism

    by Stephen Simpson 29 Sep 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 29 Sep 2015

    Two young sisters suffered age discrimination after their employer subjected them to aggressive and unfair criticism, an employment tribunal has...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Discipline
    • OH employment law

    MoD dismissal of sick worker who appeared as medium judged fair

    by Stephen Simpson 21 Sep 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 21 Sep 2015

    A Ministry of Defence (MoD) employee was fairly dismissed for making public appearances as a medium while on sick leave,...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Case law
    • Disability discrimination

    Mother dismissed over absenteeism suffered sex discrimination

    by Stephen Simpson 14 Sep 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 14 Sep 2015

    An insurance company committed sex discrimination against a mother dismissed over absenteeism linked to her daughter’s ill health, an employment...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability

    Disability discrimination: NHS discriminated against worker with cancer

    by Stephen Simpson 1 Sep 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 1 Sep 2015

    An NHS trust discriminated against an employee with cancer who attended a competitive interview during a redeployment exercise, an employment...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Dismissal
    • Unfair dismissal

    Unfair dismissal: small business instantly dismissed employee during argument

    by Stephen Simpson 24 Aug 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 24 Aug 2015

    An employee was unfairly dismissed when he was told to “not bother coming back on Monday” during an argument with...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Case law
    • Discipline

    Airport worker dismissed over treatment of colleague who “unfriended” her on Facebook

    by Stephen Simpson 17 Aug 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 17 Aug 2015

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has overturned a tribunal decision that an employee was unfairly dismissed after placing an image...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Maternity
    • Unfair dismissal

    Social media misconduct: fair dismissal for Facebook boasts of getting drunk while on standby

    by Stephen Simpson 10 Aug 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 10 Aug 2015

    An employment tribunal was wrong to conclude that a Scottish Canals employee was unfairly dismissed after he posted Facebook comments...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Sexual harassment
    • NHS

    NHS trust’s former HR director wins tribunal claim over chairman’s sexual advances

    by Stephen Simpson 3 Aug 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 3 Aug 2015

    An HR director in the NHS was constructively dismissed...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Disability discrimination

    Dismissal of employee with disabled daughter was associative disability discrimination

    by Stephen Simpson 27 Jul 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 27 Jul 2015

    An employer committed associative disability discrimination against an employee following indications that he would be increasing the time spent with...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Discipline
    • Religious discrimination

    Removal of Muslim’s Quran during locker clearance not religious discrimination

    by Stephen Simpson 20 Jul 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 20 Jul 2015

    An employment tribunal has held that the removal of a Muslim’s Quran (Koran) during a locker clearance was not religious...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Case law
    • NHS

    Jewish job applicant awarded £17,000 over Saturday working

    by Stephen Simpson 6 Jul 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 6 Jul 2015

    An employment tribunal has ordered an employer to pay over £17,000 to a devoutly religious Jewish applicant who was turned...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Childcare
    • Military

    Women on maternity leave must keep childcare voucher benefits

    by Stephen Simpson 29 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 29 Jun 2015

    It is discriminatory to make employees leave a childcare voucher scheme while on maternity leave, according to an employment tribunal....

    • Sexual harassment
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Maternity

    Tribunal watch: £406,000 for architect subjected to maternity discrimination

    by Stephen Simpson 22 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 22 Jun 2015

    Reports suggest that an employment tribunal has awarded £406,000 to an architect who was subjected to sexist bullying and marginalised...

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