Disabilities and discrimination claims
Posted By: Julie Leonard
Disabilities and discrimination claims Sometimes when an employee is dismissed they would claim they were discriminated on the grounds of their disability and issue proceedings in the Employment Tribunal on the grounds of Disability Discrimination. However, claimants with...
Can an Employer make unannounced visits to homeworkers?
Posted By: Julie Leonard
Can an Employer make unannounced visits to homeworkers? If an employer suspects that a homeworker is not doing their full day’s work, is it permissible to make unannounced home visits to check that they are working when they should be? It’s not illegal to visit an employee unan...
Must employers provide menopause support?
Posted By: Julie Leonard
Must employers provide menopause support? A study released in October 2021 indicates that 54% of businesses “do not currently have any dedicated menopause support” for employees. From a legal perspective, there’s no specific support that you must provide but menopause is being cit...
Posted By: Julie Leonard
Flexible Working Requests In a recent case an employee who was refused a permanent 5pm finish so that she could collect her child from nursery on time has been awarded £185,000 Alice Thompson (T) began working for Manors (M), which is a small firm of estate agents in Lo...
Unfair dismissal …Employers should be careful and be thorough
Posted By: Julie Leonard
Unfair dismissal …Employers should be careful and be thorough In a 2021 case, an employer dismissed an employee after he was seen at a social club smoking during a period of sickness absence. The employment tribunal has now ruled that this was an unfair dismissal. Mr....
Posted By: Julie Leonard
If an employee is off sick due to coronavirus vaccine side effects, are they entitled to pay? As is always the case in employment related matters it is important to look at what the employment contracts say in this case whether the employer operates a contractual sick pay scheme. It&r...
Posted By: Julie Leonard
The Supreme Court has made a landmark decision in the “ UBER “ case. By way of background, Uber has always regarded its taxi drivers as running their own self-employed businesses and so doesn’t provide them with any employment rights such as holiday...
