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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Employment rights
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 826
Regulation of umbrella companies
The government is proposing to introduce new legislation for firms that supply people to work elsewhere to protect workers from certain reported disadvantages.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 825
Out of time
Although tribunals can extend a deadline for someone lodging a complaint, the rule does not apply if they were a professional who should have known what it was.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 823
Conciliation complications
When large groups of workers lodge tribunal claims involving conciliation, it is only necessary for them to ensure that they provide one EC number on the form.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 823
Vexatious litigants
Claimants who repeatedly lodge tribunal claims may find themselves debarred from filing any more complaints without getting the prior permission of a judge.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 819
Res judicata
Once a court has heard and made a decision on a particular matter, the complainant does not have the right to return to that court for the matter to be reheard.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 818
No realistic prospect of success
Although tribunals should be careful when figuring out whether a claim will succeed, equally they should not shy away from using the powers that they possess.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 817
Sufficiently particularised
Although tribunals have the right to remove a claimant’s complaints in their totality, they should only remove those that are deemed not to be specific enough.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 817
Exceptional delay
Although tribunals have the right to give claimants extra time for their case to be reheard, they are likely to draw the line if the delay has been extreme.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 814
Impunity for rogue employers
The UK’s union body has flagged up the dearth of sanctions facing employers who break the law, with the result that others may be encouraged to do the same.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 814
No longer fair
If a claimant continually fails to abide by the rules that are laid down by the tribunal system, they can expect that their claim will ultimately be dismissed.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 812
Failure to bounce back
When sending in paperwork via the internet, claimants can successfully apply for more time for an appeal if the technology did not indicate there was a problem.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 809
Doubling down on data
Although employers often gather different sources of information to help with people management, a report has found they often don’t use it to its full extent.