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A one-off act of harassment could be more costly than you think!
Compensation for acts of discrimination in employment is uncapped and includes an element for injury to feelings. The recent case of Base...
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Don’t leave it to the judges to protect your business!
The Supreme Court has recently heard its first employment case on restrictive covenants for a hundred years. The landmark 2019 case of Ti...
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Last chance saloon: employers can be liable even if only aware of a...
Employers sometimes only discover that an employee has a disability at a disciplinary or even appeal hearing. This is most common with m...
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Employer’s decision to dismiss an employee for “purely personal rea...
In Hare Wine Ltd v Kaur and anor the Court of Appeal held that an employee dismissed on the day of a TUPE transfer on the pretext of diff...
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Warning of alarming bias in recruitment of ethnic minority job cand...
Ethnic minority job applicants face shocking levels of discrimination in the job market according to a recent survey, leading to calls fo...
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Hiring Senior Executives – Top Tips
In this article we look at some factors to be considered when recruiting a senior executive and in our next issue we will look at those r...
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What will be the impact of BREXIT on employment law?
Currently the UK is scheduled to leave the EU at 11pm GMT on Friday 29 March 2019. The extent to which Brexit impacts UK employment law w...
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The Government’s Good Work Plan – how significant is it?
In December 2018, the Government published its Good Work Plan which it claims is ‘the biggest package of workplace reforms for over 20 ye...
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Employment Law Update: Morrisons and CIPD Event – January 2019
In January, the Morrisons employment team joined up with the Surrey and North Hampshire branch of the Chartered Institute of Personal Dev...
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TUPE v GDPR – who wins?
We are often asked how businesses are expected to comply with GDPR requirements when disclosing employee data in a situation where the Tr...
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Supreme Court overturns finding of discrimination in “gay cake” case
Francesca Wild, Senior Associate Solicitor in our Employment department explores a recent case involving the LGBTQ community that was tak...
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Vicarious Liability – Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Limited
Employer liable for employee’s injuries caused by Christmas Party assault The Court of Appeal has held that a company was vicariously lia...
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Employee Data Breaches
Our Employment team explore a recent judgement involving employee data breaches and what employers should be doing to prevent this. In Ap...
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What is in store for Employment Law in 2019?
2018 has seen some noteworthy changes in employment law including the first deadline for gender pay gap reports and the introduction of G...
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Ethnicity pay reporting
Our Employment team explores ethnicity pay reporting in the below article, looking into employment rates across different ethnic groups. ...
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Mock Employment Tribunal success
The Morrisons employment team joined up with Hardwicke Chambers to run a highly successful Mock Employment Tribunal event in the court ro...