An employment tribunal has held that Greggs fairly dismissed an experienced baker who did not wash his hands before returning...
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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Your annual summer round-up of the most important employment law cases 2016 has seen so far, and those still to come…
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An employment tribunal threw out four claimants’ cases and ordered them to pay a total of £69,484 in costs after ...
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An employer cannot have a blanket ban on religious dress that prevents a Muslim woman from wearing an Islamic headscarf...
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Supermarket giant Asda has failed in its bid to have a mass equal pay claim against it transferred from the...
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Remedies under the Modern Slavery Act should be extended to allow employment tribunals to award compensation to the victims of...
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The national living wage encourages employers to recruit younger workers over older workers to cut costs in breach of age...
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An employment tribunal held that an employee was fairly dismissed after using a racist term at work, despite his arguments...
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An employer can prevent a Muslim employee from wearing an Islamic headscarf if the ban is based on a general...
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An employment tribunal has made protective awards of 90 days’ pay over City Link’s failure to carry out a redundancy...
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A ferry company has updated its toilet door signs to use symbols rather than words and carried out diversity awareness...
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a Christian employee, dismissed for not divorcing her husband when he was...
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A mistake by a private security company during a training exercise led to a fake bomb being left in a...
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An employment tribunal rejected an unfair dismissal claim by a line manager who was sacked when he refused to take...
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An employment tribunal held that a nurse was the victim of discrimination arising from disability, after her prospective employer withdrew...