employmenttribunal

Jun

2022

Badly Mistreated Immigrant Worker Succeeds in ET Claim

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

It is a sad fact that immigrant workers with little or no grasp of English are vulnerable to shocking mistreatment by a minority of employers. As an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling showed, however, perpetrators of such abuse can expect crushing...

Jun

2022

Clandestine Rendezvous - Unfair Constructive Dismissal

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Openness and transparency are key to promoting a healthy working environment. An Employment Tribunal (ET) made that point in taking a very dim view of a clandestine rendezvous between a salesman and his line manager in a shopping centre car park (...

May

2022

Harassment – The English Language Evolves and So Must the Workplace

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

The English language is constantly evolving and words that might once have been considered harmless are now regarded as racist, homophobic and sexist slurs. An Employment Tribunal (ET) powerfully made that point in condemning a manager's persistent...

May

2022

Big and Sophisticated Companies Need Human Resources Departments to Match

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Big companies are expected to have substantial and sophisticated human resources departments to match their stature. An Employment Tribunal (ET) made that point in upholding a call centre worker's unfair dismissal complaint (Clark v DL Insurance...

Apr

2022

COVID-19 Pandemic Has Brought Employment Status Disputes to a Head

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Strains on the labour market caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a great many latent disputes concerning employment status coming to a head. That was certainly so in the case of a woman who, despite her lynchpin role in an events and...

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...

Mar

2022

Fear of COVID-19 is Not a Philosophical Belief

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

A fear of contracting COVID-19 or infecting others with the virus is both worthy of respect and readily understandable. However, an Employment Tribunal (ET) has ruled in a novel case that it does not amount to a philosophical belief (X v Y). The...

Feb

2022

Forklift Truck Driver Sacked for Health and Safety Whistleblowing

Written by Dean Parnell

Workplace whistleblowers operate very much in the public interest but, all too often, they are punished rather than praised for their activities. The point was made by the case of a veteran forklift truck driver who was summarily dismissed after...

Feb

2022

Employment Tribunal Blasts Operations Manager's 'Sham' Redundancy

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Employers all too often assert that a worker's services are no longer needed when the real reason for their dismissal has nothing whatsoever to do with redundancy. As one case showed, however, employment judges were not born yesterday and are always...

Feb

2022

Availability of Furlough Scheme Rendered Redundancy Unreasonable

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

A great many businesses were plunged into grave financial difficulties by the COVID-19 pandemic, but was it reasonable to make employees redundant at a time when the furlough scheme provided a less draconian option? An Employment Tribunal (ET)...

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Badly Mistreated Immigrant Worker Succeeds in ET Claim

Clandestine Rendezvous - Unfair Constructive Dismissal

Harassment – The English Language Evolves and So Must the Workplace

Big and Sophisticated Companies Need Human Resources Departments to Match

COVID-19 Pandemic Has Brought Employment Status Disputes to a Head

Whistleblower Treated as 'Complainer' Receives Substantial Compensation

Fear of COVID-19 is Not a Philosophical Belief

Forklift Truck Driver Sacked for Health and Safety Whistleblowing

Employment Tribunal Blasts Operations Manager's 'Sham' Redundancy

Availability of Furlough Scheme Rendered Redundancy Unreasonable

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