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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
    • Sexual harassment
    • Jersey

    Tribunal watch: Dismissal for forwarding pension proposals a “monstrous overreaction”

    by Stephen Simpson 15 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 15 Jun 2015

    An employee who discovered a draft document about proposed changes to the pension scheme on his employer’s shared drive and...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Alcohol and drug misuse

    Tribunal watch: Unfair dismissal for smelling of alcohol at work

    by Stephen Simpson 8 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 8 Jun 2015

    An employment tribunal has held that an NHS worker was unfairly dismissed after a colleague reported him for smelling of...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Health and safety

    Tribunal watch: Dismissals for mobile phone use while driving

    by Stephen Simpson 1 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 1 Jun 2015

    Two contrasting employment tribunal claims for unfair dismissal, one upheld and one rejected, have considered the fairness of dismissals for...

    • Acas
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Early conciliation

    Tribunal watch: Employment tribunals get tough on early conciliation requirement

    by Stephen Simpson 26 May 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 26 May 2015

    Two recent employment tribunal decisions, upheld by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), suggest that tribunals will take a dim view...

    • Collective redundancy
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Criminal records

    Tribunal watch: Man dismissed over domestic violence allegations claims sex discrimination

    by Stephen Simpson 18 May 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 18 May 2015

    An employee who was sacked for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend after a workplace party tried unsuccessfully to claim sex discrimination....

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Equal pay
    • Employment tribunals

    Tribunal watch: Complaint about “tosser” insult not protected disclosure

    by Stephen Simpson 11 May 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 11 May 2015

    An employment tribunal has given short shrift to a claim that a complaint about a line manager’s rudeness to a...

    • Collective redundancy
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Constructive dismissal

    Tribunal watch: Flawed redundancy consultation with BT staff

    by Stephen Simpson 5 May 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 5 May 2015

    An employment tribunal has awarded compensation to the former employees of a BT subsidiary for the failure to carry out...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Maternity
    • Pregnancy and maternity discrimination

    Tribunal watch: Intensive training requirement led to sex discrimination judgment

    by Stephen Simpson 27 Apr 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 27 Apr 2015

    An employment tribunal has held that a female police officer who was required to attend an intensive firearms training course...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Zero hours
    • Race discrimination

    Tribunal watch: EAT upholds “reverse zero hours” decision in Liverpool mayor case

    by Stephen Simpson 20 Apr 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 20 Apr 2015

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a decision limiting unfair dismissal compensation paid to the mayor of Liverpool, whose...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Constructive dismissal
    • Bullying and harassment

    Tribunal watch: £3.1m for banker falsely labelled “Ms Cokehead”

    by Stephen Simpson 13 Apr 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 13 Apr 2015

    An employment tribunal award of £3.1 million has been given to a former banker who was forced out of her...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Age discrimination

    Tribunal watch: £84,000 for bus driver who failed drug test after “touching contaminated banknotes”

    by Stephen Simpson 30 Mar 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 30 Mar 2015

    An employment tribunal has awarded a bus driver £84,000 for unfair dismissal after a drug test revealed traces of cocaine...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Annual hours
    • Equal pay

    Tribunal watch: Sex discrimination against flexible working single parent

    by Stephen Simpson 23 Mar 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 23 Mar 2015

    An employment tribunal has held that Greater Manchester Police committed sex discrimination against a female police officer when it amended...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Age discrimination
    • Constructive dismissal

    Tribunal watch: Cricket umpires lose age discrimination case

    by Stephen Simpson 16 Mar 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 16 Mar 2015

    An employment tribunal has rejected the age discrimination claims brought by two former cricket umpires, who were removed from their...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Sexual harassment
    • Age discrimination

    Tribunal watch: Unfair dismissal of manager “forced to dress up as Santa”

    by Stephen Simpson 9 Mar 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 9 Mar 2015

    An employment tribunal has held that a manager was constructively dismissed after he was forced to dress up as Father...

    • Sexual harassment
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Bullying and harassment

    Tribunal watch: Re-enactment of Ghost film scene not sexual harassment

    by Stephen Simpson 2 Mar 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 2 Mar 2015

    An employment tribunal has found that a line manager with a “predilection for innuendo” did not commit sexual harassment against...

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