SECTORS SERVICES INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE Home Insights Blogs Current: Employment Employment Employment blog Our employment law blog provides insight on the latest legal and policy decisions affecting employers and those in a senior human resources role. Filter POSTED BY LINDSEY HILL 24 NOVEMBER 2021 Employers should convey all disciplinary allegations and consider alternatives to dismissal The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal decision that the dismissal of an employee for his conduct at a political rally was unfair... Read more Bookmark this page 3 min read Unfair dismissal POSTED BY NICK ABBOTT | 23 NOVEMBER 2021 Tribunal ruling required to resolve dispute over academic’s probationary period and dismissal The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the employment tribunal’s ruling about the early termination of a lecturer’s contract ... Bookmark this page 2 min read POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 3 NOVEMBER 2021 Unexpected failure to secure government support not special circumstance The Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected Carillion’s argument that the Government’s decision to refuse an urgent request for financial support amounted to special circumstances... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 28 OCTOBER 2021 Court of Appeal ruling overturned in trade union inducements litigation An employer had infringed trade union legislation when it made a direct pay offer to its workforce before it had completed the collective bargaining process... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 21 OCTOBER 2021 Court of Appeal confirms worker status for courier engaged via app The Court of Appeal has confirmed that a courier, who worked ad hoc shifts delivering parcels by moped, should have been classified as a worker... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY JOG HUNDLE | 18 OCTOBER 2021 EAT gives first ruling on menopausal symptoms and disability Just a few days before World Menopause Day, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has given its first ever ruling on whether typical menopausal symptoms can amount to a disability... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 EAT rules on justifying compulsory retirement for Oxford’s academic staff The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld two separate employment tribunal decisions about Oxford University’s compulsory retirement age for academic staff, even though they reached opposite conclusions on whether or not it was justified... Bookmark this page 2 min read POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 27 SEPTEMBER 2021 Tribunal opens up possibility of new rights for carers of disabled adults An employment tribunal has upheld a claim for indirect disability discrimination brought by a worker caring for a disabled adult... Bookmark this page 3 min read POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 24 SEPTEMBER 2021 Government launches consultation on making flexible working “the default” Yesterday’s consultation on flexible working explores five ways current legislation could be changed to support “genuine two sided flexibility”. It also sets out the Government’s other plans for making flexible working “part of the workplace DNA”... Bookmark this page 2 min read POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 1 SEPTEMBER 2021 Dismissal can be fair despite absence of appeal In a case with highly unusual facts, the EAT has upheld a tribunal’s ruling that the dismissal of an employee director had been fair, despite the failure to provide him with an opportunity to appeal... 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