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.
Compensation
Compensation
Weekly Issue 830
Compensatory shortfall
Although tribunals have the power to add to a claimant’s reimbursement if the employer won’t take them back, the appeal tribunal made clear there are limits.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 821
Legal entitlement to customer tips
A new law has just been passed, effective from next year, which states that employers have to hand over any rewards left by customers for the benefit of staff.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 820
Failure to mitigate
In order to help tribunals work out how much money to award a worker as compensation, the appeal tribunal has set out a list of questions for them to answer.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 813
No job available
When calculating what recompense to provide for loss of a job, tribunals must confirm whether there was an actual job available for the employee in question.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 810
Material remedies
When considering cases that involve working out appropriate recompense for workers, tribunals must ensure that all the relevant paperwork is available to them.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 806
Compulsory compensation
Irrespective of the size of the employer, the appeal tribunal has made clear that all are bound by law to talk to their employees before making them redundant.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 805
Calculating a costs order
When working out costs that an employer has incurred with respect to a claim, tribunals have to clearly explain what costs they included in their calculations.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 796
Low pay for night work
A survey has found that people who work the third shift are not being properly recompensed for the risks and inconvenience that they and their families face.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 794
Reasons for reducing compensation
When assessing a sacked employee’s recompense, tribunals must ensure that they give precise reasons in the event that they decide to reduce the overall amount.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 780
Maximum uplift
The law says that if an employer breaches certain protocols, then the tribunal can increase recompense even if it was not clear which protocol they breached.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 768
Correct assessment
Even if a tribunal decides that an employer dismissed their employee unfairly, it can still justify a lack of recompense if the employee would have left anyway.
Compensation
Weekly Issue 727
Awarding compensation
Although workers can claim redress in the event that they succeed with their tribunal claim, that does not mean that tribunals are always obliged to award it.