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Government consults on restricting exit payments in the public sector

29 April 2019

25 April 2019

Innovation plan published for the modernisation of tribunals

The Senior President of the Tribunals has published an innovation plan for the modernisation of employment tribunals in 2019-2020. The three key initiatives planned for...

24 April 2019

Government consults on restricting exit payments in the public sector

The Government introduced powers to cap exit payments in the public sector at £95,000 in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 by way...

21 April 2019

£2,600 awarded after female driver told she should be “back at home and in the kitchen”

In Nixon v Royal Mail Group Limited, Ms Nixon (N) is a driver, whose line manager was Mr Mistry (M). An ET upheld N’s claim...

20 April 2019

Employer not liable for employee’s back injury after being dropped by visitor at Xmas party

In Shelbourne v Cancer Research UK, members of staff from one department organised CRUK’s Christmas party. The department manager carried out a risk assessment to...

11 April 2019

Lesbian employee told not to make her sexuality common knowledge discriminated against

M complained that she had suffered discrimination because of her sexual orientation when she made the MD aware in the first week of her employment...

10 April 2019

ET failed to focus on anxiety suffered by employee with colitis who was denied a parking space 

In Linsley v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Custom, L has ulcerative colitis, which can manifest itself in a sudden and urgent need for...

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Acas release guidance on Neurodiversity in the workplace

6 April 2019

5 April 2019

Majority of working women experiencing the menopause say it has a negative impact on them at work

CIPD research of 1400 working women between the ages of 45 and 55 shows that 59% say they are experiencing menopause symptoms which are having...

4 April 2019

Dismissal of union official for encouraging ‘cyber picketing’ automatically unfair

In Rogers v Picturehouse Cinemas Limited, R was a BECTU union representative. She was dismissed for three reasons: (1) sending an email after a union...

2 April 2019

Comment likening a baguette to a dildo was sexual harassment 

In Henderson v Stessa Leisure (Tynemouth) Ltd, H complained after two colleagues engaged in discussion with H where they asked her if she had undertaken...

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Government launches its first holiday pay advertising campaign

31 March 2019

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