Weekly Issue 287

Government reforms are charter for bullying workers

The government last week announced yet more employment law reforms which amount to a charter for employers to ambush and bully workers into leaving their jobs, Thompsons has said.

Caring package

It is well established in case law that, to be an employee, there has to be “mutuality of obligation” between the parties.

Pub contract

To succeed in a claim of unfair dismissal, claimants have to show that their employer committed a fundamental breach of contract (among other things).