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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
    • Health and safety
    • Dismissal

    Greggs baker fairly dismissed for not washing hands

    by Stephen Simpson 4 Aug 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 4 Aug 2016

    An employment tribunal has held that Greggs fairly dismissed an experienced baker who did not wash his hands before returning...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Childcare
    • Case law

    Five important employment law cases in 2016… and five more to come

    by Stephen Simpson 21 Jul 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 21 Jul 2016

    Your annual summer round-up of the most important employment law cases 2016 has seen so far, and those still to come…

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Case law
    • Employment tribunals

    Large costs award: claimants secretly recorded employer’s legal advice

    by Stephen Simpson 18 Jul 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 18 Jul 2016

    An employment tribunal threw out four claimants’ cases and ordered them to pay a total of £69,484 in costs after ...

    • Case law
    • Europe
    • Belgium

    Employers cannot ban Muslim headscarves, says Advocate General

    by Stephen Simpson 13 Jul 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 13 Jul 2016

    An employer cannot have a blanket ban on religious dress that prevents a Muslim woman from wearing an Islamic headscarf...

    • Case law
    • Employment law
    • Discrimination

    Asda fails to block mass equal pay tribunal claim

    by Stephen Simpson 23 Jun 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 23 Jun 2016

    Supermarket giant Asda has failed in its bid to have a mass equal pay claim against it transferred from the...

    • Case law
    • Race discrimination
    • Modern slavery

    Supreme Court: give tribunals power to award compensation for modern slavery

    by Stephen Simpson 22 Jun 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 22 Jun 2016

    Remedies under the Modern Slavery Act should be extended to allow employment tribunals to award compensation to the victims of...

    • Age discrimination
    • National living wage
    • Recruitment & retention

    National living wage: extra age band encourages discrimination

    by Stephen Simpson 9 Jun 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 9 Jun 2016

    The national living wage encourages employers to recruit younger workers over older workers to cut costs in breach of age...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Dismissal

    Dismissed worker argued racist term was “street talk”

    by Stephen Simpson 9 Jun 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 9 Jun 2016

    An employment tribunal held that an employee was fairly dismissed after using a racist term at work, despite his arguments...

    • Europe
    • Case law
    • Belgium

    Employers can ban Muslim headscarves at work, says EU lawyer

    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016

    An employer can prevent a Muslim employee from wearing an Islamic headscarf if the ban is based on a general...

    • Collective redundancy
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Insolvency

    Redundancy consultation: protective awards for City Link staff

    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 31 May 2016

    An employment tribunal has made protective awards of 90 days’ pay over City Link’s failure to carry out a redundancy...

    • Case law
    • Gender reassignment discrimination
    • Jersey

    Gender reassignment: trans customer wins toilet sign claim

    by Stephen Simpson 27 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 27 May 2016

    A ferry company has updated its toilet door signs to use symbols rather than words and carried out diversity awareness...

    • Tribunal Watch
    • Criminal records
    • Dismissal

    Religious discrimination: Christian teacher’s dismissal for refusal to divorce sex offender

    by Stephen Simpson 23 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 23 May 2016

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a Christian employee, dismissed for not divorcing her husband when he was...

    • Case law
    • Health and safety
    • Discipline and grievances

    One-off serious mistakes at work: five key cases

    by Stephen Simpson 17 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 17 May 2016

    A mistake by a private security company during a training exercise led to a fake bomb being left in a...

    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Dismissal

    Fair dismissal of line manager who refused workplace drug test

    by Stephen Simpson 16 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 16 May 2016

    An employment tribunal rejected an unfair dismissal claim by a line manager who was sacked when he refused to take...

    • Absence
    • Tribunal Watch
    • NHS

    Employer withdrew job offer due to sickness absence

    by Stephen Simpson 9 May 2016
    by Stephen Simpson 9 May 2016

    An employment tribunal held that a nurse was the victim of discrimination arising from disability, after her prospective employer withdrew...

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