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Employment Law Review

Thompsons’ Employment Law Review is recognised as an authoritative source of comment and discussion from our trade union law specialists. Available to read here, and also via a weekly email bulletin, the Employment Law Review offers considerable insight into the latest issues affecting trade unions and their members.

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Weekly Issue 840

  • Predicting working hours
  • Financial gain claim
  • Coping vs avoidance

Weekly Issue 839

  • Workplace dress codes
  • Rectifying a mistake
  • Online application

Weekly Issue 838

  • Risks from AI
  • Parties to the contract
  • Quick dismissal

Equality, discrimination and harassment

Weekly Issue 840

Financial gain claim

A claimant who made multiple applications claiming potential discrimination has been told by a tribunal that he cannot benefit from such a cynical approach.

Equality, discrimination and harassment

Weekly Issue 840

Coping vs avoidance

An appeal tribunal has held that tribunals must take into account certain information to decide whether a claimant can cope with an impairment or just avoid it.

Equality, discrimination and harassment

Weekly Issue 839

Workplace dress codes

A study has found that most minority ethnic job applicants have real concerns about how a potential employer may react to the way they dress or wear their hair.

Employment rights

Weekly Issue 839

Rectifying a mistake

Although there are strict deadlines for lodging claims, tribunals can exercise a limited discretion depending on the circumstances that resulted in missing it.

Equality, discrimination and harassment

Weekly Issue 839

Online application

The law states that if an employer should have known the impact of someone’s impairment on, say, applying for a job, then they effectively had knowledge of it.

Equality, discrimination and harassment

Weekly Issue 838

Risks from AI

The main UK union body has set up a committee of experts in order to draft a new law which aims to protect workers from various developments in new technology.

Definition of a worker

Weekly Issue 838

Parties to the contract

As there was a contract between an organisation and two companies that an individual had set up, that person could not satisfy the criteria for being a worker.

Unfair dismissal

Weekly Issue 838

Quick dismissal

Once a tribunal had decided that an employee was not given the chance to change their behaviour, it could not then decide that it was fair to dismiss them.

Vulnerable and migrant workers

Weekly Issue 837

Childcare workforce crisis

Because of a serious dearth of workers to look after children, the TUC has developed an overarching blueprint to try to resolve the problems that has created.

Breach of contact

Weekly Issue 837

New terms and conditions

When deciding if a variation of an employee’s contract amounted to a dismissal, the appeal court has said tribunals must compare the old one with the new one.

Unfair dismissal

Weekly Issue 837

Delayed claim

If a claimant does not lodge their complaint within a certain time limit, the tribunal does not have to turn it down even if they did not explain the delay.