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£80,000 costs award for pursuing claims unreasonably

14 October 2016

14 October 2016

Holiday pay calculation must include results-based commission forming part of normal remuneration

British Gas appealed, and the EAT, and now the Court of Appeal (CA), held that the ET were correct to interpret the WTR as it...

7 October 2016

Employers regularly tell women to put on more makeup, wear high heels and short skirts

A survey by law firm, Slater and Gordon, of 2,000 employees has found that employers regularly tell women to put on more makeup, wear high...

7 October 2016

Negative attitudes towards tattoos could result in missing out on talented workers

Acas have published new research on dress codes which shows that employers risk losing talented young employees due to concerns about employing people with visible...

7 October 2016

PM guarantees existing employment law rights will apply post-Brexit

The Prime Minister has announced at the Conservative Party conference that the Government will invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union no later...

7 October 2016

Failure to limit hours to allow mothers who were breastfeeding to express milk was discriminatory

Unite, the union, report that an employment tribunal has found that a failure by an airline to limit duty days to 8 hours, to allow...

23 September 2016

Illegal working penalties 1 Jan to 31 Mar totalled £14m

UK Visas and Immigration have published a report showing the total number of fines for illegal working given to employers in each region of the...

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Mothers with young children a third less likely to be in work than fathers

23 September 2016

23 September 2016

Flybe cabin crew manager wins indirect sex discrimination case

The Mail report that a female cabin crew manager has won her indirect sex discrimination case after Flybe refused to agree to a reduced pattern...

23 September 2016

Tribunal statistics show 3% drop in single claims but 35% increase in multiple claims

The Ministry of Justice has published the tribunal quarterly statistics bulletin for the period April to June 2016. During this quarter:...

23 September 2016

Disciplinary warning relevant to reasonableness of summary dismissal

In Trye v UKME Ltd, Trye (T) had been issued with a final written warning relating to various acts of misconduct including a failure to...

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Commercial property landlord puts ‘Anti-Slavery’ clauses into contracts

15 September 2016

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