The classic “range of reasonable responses test” in unfair dismissal cases means that a harsh dismissal is not necessarily an...
Stephen Simpson
Stephen Simpson
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.
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An employment tribunal has held that an NHS worker was unfairly dismissed after a colleague reported him for smelling of...
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Two contrasting employment tribunal claims for unfair dismissal, one upheld and one rejected, have considered the fairness of dismissals for...
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Legislation preventing employers from using exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts becomes law from today (26 May). The legislation makes...
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Two recent employment tribunal decisions, upheld by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), suggest that tribunals will take a dim view...
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An employee who was sacked for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend after a workplace party tried unsuccessfully to claim sex discrimination....
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An employment tribunal has given short shrift to a claim that a complaint about a line manager’s rudeness to a...
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An employment tribunal has awarded compensation to the former employees of a BT subsidiary for the failure to carry out...
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A decision has finally been reached in the long-running Woolworths redundancy...
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An employment tribunal has held that a female police officer who was required to attend an intensive firearms training course...
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a decision limiting unfair dismissal compensation paid to the mayor of Liverpool, whose...
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In unfair dismissal claims, employment tribunals take the “Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures” into account where...
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An employment tribunal award of £3.1 million has been given to a former banker who was forced out of her...
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Many employers will now have their shared parental leave policy to cover birth situations in place. But how does shared...
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Workplace pranks are harmless fun most of the time, but there are occasions when a practical joke in the workplace...