compensation

Mar

2022

Tech Company Failed to Make Reasonable Adjustments for Cancer Sufferer

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Corporate reorganisations arising from a change in ownership very often result in a need to reduce staff numbers. However, as one case showed, it is vital to conduct redundancy exercises fairly and openly and with careful regard to the particular...

Mar

2022

COVID-19 Whistleblower Succeeds in Automatic Unfair Dismissal Claim

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees have complained that social distancing and other precautions were not enforced with sufficient rigour in their workplaces. As an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling in a whistleblowing case made plain,...

Mar

2022

Whistleblower Treated as 'Complainer' Receives Substantial Compensation

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Whistleblowers perform a vital role in the public interest and managers who persist in viewing their activities merely as inconvenient belly-aching expose themselves to condemnation by Employment Tribunals (ETs). That was certainly so in the case of...

Feb

2022

Woman Sacked During Difficult Pregnancy Receives Just Compensation

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Dismissing an employee for being pregnant may seem extraordinary in this day and age but it still happens far too often. In a case on point, a shop assistant who was viewed as a malingerer by her employer during her complicated pregnancy was awarded...

Dec

2021

Lost Your Job Due to the Pandemic? You May Have Been Unfairly Dismissed

Written by Sydney Mitchell

If you are amongst the cohort of workers who have been made redundant in the wake of the pandemic and feel that you have been treated unfairly, you should contact a solicitor without delay. In one case, a bar manager who was sacked without notice...

Nov

2021

Disability Discrimination – Diabetic Cake Shop Worker Compensated

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Discrimination against disabled employees is a social evil with which Employment Tribunals (ETs) will have no truck. In one case, a cake shop worker who was dismissed because of her diabetes was awarded thousands of pounds in compensation (Nicholson...

Sep

2021

Homeowner MisSold Solar Panels Awarded Thousands in Compensation

Written by Katie Maxwell-S...

If you buy goods that fail to live up to a salesman's hyperbole, you may be entitled to compensation and should consult a solicitor immediately. In one case, a homeowner who had solar panels installed in the forlorn hope that they would pay for...

Apr

2021

New 'Vento' Bands

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

There are three bands that are used by Employment Tribunals when assessing the amount of compensation payable for injury to feelings in discrimination and whistleblowing cases. These are known as the 'Vento' bands, after the 2002 case in which the...

Apr

2021

Not every finding of Unfair Dismissal results in compensation

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

As night follows day, one might think that an award of compensation automatically follows a finding of unfair dismissal. An instructive Employment Tribunal (ET) decision, however, showed that that is by no means always the case (Pullar v Tangerine...

Feb

2021

'Restructuring' and 'Reorganisation' can be weasel words

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

The words 'restructuring' and 'reorganisation' are perhaps too often heard on the lips of employers seeking to justify staff dismissals – but, as one case strikingly showed, Employment Tribunals (ETs) are proficient at discerning whether such...

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compensation

Tech Company Failed to Make Reasonable Adjustments for Cancer Sufferer

COVID-19 Whistleblower Succeeds in Automatic Unfair Dismissal Claim

Whistleblower Treated as 'Complainer' Receives Substantial Compensation

Woman Sacked During Difficult Pregnancy Receives Just Compensation

Lost Your Job Due to the Pandemic? You May Have Been Unfairly Dismissed

Disability Discrimination – Diabetic Cake Shop Worker Compensated

Homeowner MisSold Solar Panels Awarded Thousands in Compensation

New 'Vento' Bands

Not every finding of Unfair Dismissal results in compensation

'Restructuring' and 'Reorganisation' can be weasel words

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