Was a Redundancy Dismissal Unfair Because of Lack of Appeal?
In Gwynedd Council v (1) Barratt (2) Hughes [2021] EWCA Civ 1322, the Court of Appeal (CA) considered whether an employer’s failure to give an employee an...more
Was an Employer Liable for an Assault Committed by one of its Employees on Another?
In Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 2214, the Court of Appeal considered whether an employer was liable for 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
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Kellogg Brown & Root (UK) Ltd v (1) Fitton UKEAT/0205/16 and (2) Ewer UKEAT/0206/16 considered whether two employees had been unfairly dismissed for redundancy when they refused to...more
Donkor v Royal Bank of Scotland UKEAT/0162/15 considered the appropriate comparator in direct age discrimination cases.
Mr Donkor’s employer, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), underwent a restructuring in 2012. As part...more
Broadly speaking, the position is currently that the first £30,000 of any non-contractual termination payment can be paid free of deductions for tax and national insurance (NI), and that most other payments are subject to tax...more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has handed down its judgment in the longstanding litigation case of USDAW and another v WW Realisation 1 Ltd (C-80/14) concerning the meaning of “establishment” for the purposes of...more
The annual increases in compensation took effect on 6 April 2015. The most notable changes are as follows:
- The limit on a week's pay for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy payments and the basic award...more