There have been several important developments to employment law in the United Kingdom in 2021 including the end of the furlough scheme, how employers bring back to work and vaccination requirements.
Additionally,...more
Disability Discrimination: Was the Discrimination ‘Because Of’ Disability or ‘But For’ Disability?
In Robinson v Department for Work and Pensions [2020] EWCA Civ 859, the Court of Appeal provided helpful guidance on the...more
Must Employers Record All Hours Worked?
In Federacion de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE (Case C-55/18), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered whether the EU’s Working Time Directive...more
Collective Redundancies: What Is an “Undertaking Controlling the Employer?”
In Bichat v Aviation Passage Service Berlin GmbH & Co KG [2018] C-6117, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered the meaning of an...more
When Is Notice of Termination Effective?
In Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood [2018] UKSC 22, the U.K. Supreme Court upheld last year’s Court of Appeal decision, reported by us here, that where an...more
Court of Appeal: Disability Discrimination & Reasonable Adjustments -
In United First Partners Research v Nicolas Carreras [2018] EWCA Civ 323 the Court of Appeal considered whether an expectation (rather than a...more
In Donelien v Liberata UK Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 129, the Court of Appeal considered whether an employer had constructive knowledge of an employee’s disability.
Ms Donelien was employed by Liberata UK Limited (Liberata) as a...more
In The Chief Constable of Norfolk v Coffey [2017] UKEAT 0260_16_1912 the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether someone who was not disabled could succeed in a disability discrimination claim on the basis that...more
In the case of Government Legal Services v Brookes [2017] UKEAT/0302/16/RN, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether a job applicant with Asperger’s Syndrome was discriminated against due to the requirement to...more
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Herry v Dudley Metropolitan Council UKEAT/0100/16/LA considered whether an employee’s long-term stress made him disabled for the purposes of U.K. disability discrimination law.
Mr...more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Mohamed Daouidi v Bootes Plus S.L. (Case C-395/15) (2015/C 354/22) considered whether the dismissal of a worker due to temporary incapacity (but of unknown duration) could constitute...more
In G4S Cash Solutions (UK) Ltd v Powell UKEAT/0243/15, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether reducing an employee’s pay amounted to disability discrimination.
Mr Powell could longer perform his role as...more
In Griffiths v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2015] EWCA Civ 1265, the Court of Appeal considered whether the duty to make reasonable adjustments under U.K. discrimination law could apply to an attendance...more
In Monmouthshire County Council v Harris UKEAT/0332/14/DA, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered the fairness of a dismissal of an employee on long-term sick leave.
Mrs Harris, an employee of Monmouthshire...more
In Easton v B&Q Plc [2015] EWHC 880, the High Court considered whether an employer was liable for an employee’s psychiatric injury caused by work-related stress.
Easton had been a high performing manager at B&Q for 10...more