Employment Law Review

Zero hours contracts

Equality, discrimination and harassment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.