Weekly issue 92

NEWS IN BRIEF

A revised code of practice on discipline and grievance handling in the workplace is now available on the Acas website.

CONTROLLING CONTRACT

It is often not easy for courts to decide whether someone is an employee or self-employed, but the Court of Appeal has said in Jennings v The Forestry Commission (IDS 862) that the most important thing to ascertain is who has control over the way in which the work is to be done (including the use of work equipment).

Reasonably Responsive

To succeed in a constructive dismissal claim, employees have to show that their employer fundamentally breached a term of the contract.