Way ahead – Roadmap for employment tribunals published

The Presidents of the Employment Tribunals have published a roadmap outlining a plan for increasing the number of employment tribunal hearings that can take place over the coming months, in light of the disruption caused by coronavirus.

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Second line of defence – refusing to allow an appeal made redundancies unfair

An employer's refusal to allow employees to appeal against a decision to dismiss them for redundancy, along with its approach to suitable alternative employment, made dismissals unfair, according to the EAT in Gwynedd Council v Barratt.

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Why did you do it? Disability related mitigating factors did not have to cause misconduct

In Martin v Home Office the EAT remitted unfair dismissal and disability discrimination claims because the tribunal had misunderstood the relevant test. The mitigating factors that the claimant relied on to explain why she had accessed a database without a legitimate reason for doing so, some of which related to her depression, did not have to cause the misconduct, they just had to have a material impact on it.

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Covid-19 updates

We are regularly updating our client materials on the employment and wider implications of COVID 19. You can find our note on the job retention scheme here, our FAQs on returning to the workplace here, and our global guide to COVID 19 here.

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