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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.

    • 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...

    • Age discrimination
    • Case law
    • Police

    Age discrimination: police officers to appeal against EAT decision on A19 retirement

    by Stephen Simpson 4 Aug 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 4 Aug 2015

    An appeal has been lodged against the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling that requiring police officers to retire after 30...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Sexual harassment
    • Constructive dismissal

    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...

    • Ethics
    • ESG
    • Modern slavery

    Employers required to produce modern slavery statements from October 2015

    by Stephen Simpson 31 Jul 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 31 Jul 2015

    Large employers will have to publish a modern slavery statement for each financial year, the Government has confirmed.
    The requirement...

    • 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...

    • Equal pay
    • Gender pay gap

    Gender pay reporting for large employers expected in 2016

    by Stephen Simpson 14 Jul 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 14 Jul 2015

    The Government has published a preliminary consultation on its proposals for mandatory gender pay reporting for employers with 250 or...

    • 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...

    • Case law
    • Employment law
    • Holidays and holiday pay

    Holiday pay: two-year backdating limit on claims submitted from 1 July 2015

    by Stephen Simpson 30 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 30 Jun 2015

    Employees bringing holiday pay claims at employment tribunals on or after 1 July 2015 will only be able to claim...

    • 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....

    • Case law
    • Holidays and holiday pay
    • Overtime

    Holiday pay: voluntary overtime should be included, rules appeal court

    by Stephen Simpson 26 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 26 Jun 2015

    There is no reason in principle why voluntary overtime should not be included in holiday pay, according to an important...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Sexual harassment
    • 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...

    • Holidays and holiday pay
    • Overtime

    Holiday pay: “nothing in principle” to prevent inclusion of voluntary overtime

    by Stephen Simpson 17 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 17 Jun 2015

    In a Northern Ireland Court of Appeal hearing today, the employer’s legal representatives have conceded that there is “nothing in...

    • Sexual harassment
    • Tribunal Watch
    • 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...

    • Religious discrimination
    • Dress codes
    • Religion

    Religious dress in the workplace: five key employment cases from the UK

    by Stephen Simpson 12 Jun 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 12 Jun 2015

    The US Supreme Court has found that Abercrombie & Fitch committed religious discrimination when it rejected a Muslim woman’s job...

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