The government has launched an advertising campaign to encourage more parents to take up Shared Parental Leave in their baby’s first year (…)
For an employer to be held vicariously liable for the actions of their employees, there has to be sufficient connection between their job and the wrongful conduct. In Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarket plc, the High Court held that there was a sufficient connection between the disclosure of material by a disgruntled employee to an unauthorised third party and the position in which he was employed (…)
In order to succeed in a claim of unfair dismissal for making a protected disclosure (blowing the whistle), claimants have to show a reasonable belief that it was in the public interest. In Parsons v Airplus International Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld the tribunal decision that if a disclosure is made solely in self-interest it cannot qualify as a protected disclosure (…)