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Timestamp: 2019-07-21 06:24:04
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In Simpson v Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (UKEAT/0016/18/DA) the Employment Appeal Tribunal considered a range of commonly disputed points of law concerning “whistleblowing”. Alice Mayhew appe...
Interested in the blue pencil: Restrictive Covenants in the Supreme Court
As the only implied obligation in a contract of employment to survive post-employment is the duty of confidence, any other regulation of the conduct of an ex-employee must be done by an express post-t...
Introduction and substance of the claim In Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE (Case C-55/18) EU:C:2019:402, a group action was brought by a number of trad...
These are interesting times for employment status. The courts and tribunals have considered the status of couriers, plumbers and National Gallery guides. The Government has published its response to t...
The Court of Appeal ruled on 24 May 2019 in the eagerly awaited appeals by men on shared parental leave who were paid less than women on maternity leave. It held that: There is no direct disc...
In The Mayor & Burgesses of the London Borough of Lambeth v Simone Agoreyo [2019] EWCA Civ 322, the Court of Appeal confirmed that suspension of an employee is to be treated like any other alleged...
In what could potentially be the last days of the UK as a member of the EU, the EAT has recently published its first judgment on the workings of European Works Councils (EWCs) – Lean v ManpowerG...
At the end of 2018, the government announced the Good Work Plan, which develops its response to the Taylor Review. It describes the plan as “the biggest package of workplace reforms for over 20 ...
Does your case involve matters of national security? Are those matters so important that the Crown has applied for it to be excluded from the Public Register of judgments? Probably not – and so ...
There are some phrases which make an employment lawyer's heart sink, and pride of place amongst them undoubtedly goes to "but it was just office banter". Usually a signal that something offensive ...
Parties often seek to rely on privilege as a reason for declining to provide disclosure, specifically legal advice privilege, or litigation privilege. The former protects confidential communications b...
The Court of Appeal handed down judgment last week in conjoined appeals: The British Council v Jeffery and Green and SIG Trading Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2253. The judgment provides guidance on the follow...
In (1) Timis (2) Sage v Osipov [2018] EWCA Civ 2321, the Court of Appeal has unanimously confirmed the EAT decision in International Petroleum Ltd & Ors v Osipov & Ors (EAT/0058/17/DA) th...
If something is not done in good faith, then one might think it must have been done in bad faith. The two terms appear mutually exclusive, and the man on the street would be forgiven for thinking that...
Employment lawyers will be very familiar with principles governing applications for injunction, but perhaps rather less so with applications for interim declarations brought pursuant to CPR 25.1(1)(b)...
Until recently, a series of EAT decisions stretching back more than a decade appeared to establish that some sleep-in workers were entitled to be paid at the rate of the national minimum wage (NMW) fo...
A perennial question for lawyers advising on schedules of loss or settlement agreements is whether the sums received by the claimant will be taxable as earnings and therefore subject to income tax and...
Those interested in the tests for employment status continue to be rewarded by the stream of gig economy cases working their way upwards from the Employment Tribunal (ET), through the Employment Appea...
The Court of Appeal handed down judgment last week in Nailard v Unite the Union [2018] EWCA Civ 1203, an important case which considered whether (1) elected branch officials could be ‘agent...
In City of York Council v Grosset [2018] EWCA Civ 1105 the Court of Appeal has approved the approach of the Employment Appeal Tribunal to discrimination arising from disability under the Equality Act ...
Introduction The EAT has recently handed down two decisions on shared parental leave: Capita Customer Management v Ali & Working Families (Intervenor) UKEAT/0161/17 and Hextall v Chief Constable ...
Employment tribunal claims dealing with the issue of personal liability are being considered with increasing frequency. Claimants often only consider such claims due to concerns over the possible inso...
Last month's revelations about the Presidents Club fundraising dinner, at which female hostesses were reportedly harassed by male guests, has raised questions about the third party harassment prov...
Articles about GDPR abound across social media and the internet: everyone knows it is coming in May (specifically 25 May 2018), but are organisations really waking up to the reality of it? Employers a...
Introduction 2017 has seen a series of cases concerning limb (b) worker status in the ‘gig economy.’ Individuals have claimed entitlements to be paid the minimum wage, holiday pay and so ...
A recent series of cases before the EAT have highlighted the complexities faced by respondents when determining whether to challenge the ET’s jurisdiction where a claimant has failed to comply w...
What should an employer do when it becomes aware of an allegation of sexual harassment or misconduct against an employee outside of the workplace and away from clients? Does it matter whether or...
In Efobi v Royal Mail Group Ltd UKEAT/023/16, the EAT considered the proper interpretation of the burden of proof provision in section 136 of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010). The burden of proof pro...
“It is likely to be an unusual case where an employee will wish to pursue a claim and seek a remedy against a fellow worker for a whistleblowing detriment amounting to dismissal, rather than pur...
The Court of Appeal has considered the meaning of the words “in the public interest” which were added to whistleblowing legislation by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 in orde...
The Court of Appeal has finally resolved the vexed question of whether the Simmons v Castle uplift on general damages, intended to counterbalance costs reform in the civil courts, should apply to inju...
Everyone knows that it is always impermissible to take a lapsed warning into account when deciding whether to dismiss an employee. According to the Court of Appeal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal, ...
In Simmons v Castle [2013] 1 All ER 334 the Court of Appeal declared that from 1 April 2013 awards of general damages in “all civil claims for (i) pain and suffering, (ii) loss of amenity, (iii)...
In Essop and others v Home Office (UK Border Agency) [2017] UKSC 27 the Supreme Court, overturning a decision of the Court of Appeal (and the original employment tribunal) has held that indirect discr...
Govia GTR Railway Limited v ASLEF [2016] EWCA Civ 1309 was the first occasion on which an application to restrain industrial action based on European Law had been made in an English court. The series ...
Finally, the wait is over. The Trade Union Act 2016 (“TUA”), which received royal assent as long ago as May last year, is brought substantially into force with effect from 1 March 2017. Wh...
The Ministry of Justice (‘MOJ’) recently launched its website of Employment Tribunal (‘ET’) decisions. At present, the website contains around 140 past decisions from 2015 onwa...
Employment status has received a lot of recent press coverage, in particular in the ‘gig’ economy – Uber, CitySprint, Deliveroo. It is an area of law in which advisers and in p...
Employment lawyers, as well as their clients, might well be forgiven for hoping that the only change on the horizon in regard to the system of employment litigation would be clarity as to the status a...