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U.K. Employment Law Update: Disciplinary Proceedings, Compensation on an Unfair Dismissal and Religious Discrimination

Do Disciplinary Proceedings Have to Wait Until a Criminal Investigation Is Completed? In North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust v Gregg [2019] EWCA Civ 387, the Court of Appeal considered whether conducting disciplinary...more

U.K. Employment Law Update: Collective Redundancies, Post-Termination Restrictions and Disability Discrimination

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

U.K. Employment Law Update: Transfer of an Undertaking Hits a Roadblock, Whistleblower Disclosures and the Latest in Employment...

Did a Temporary Break in Activities Prevent the Transfer of an Undertaking? In Colino Sigüenza v Ayuntamiento de Valladolid (C-472/16), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered whether a five-month break in...more

U.K. Employment Law Update: Rising Employment Tribunal Claims, Serious Employee Misconduct and Who Is the True Employer

A Year on: The Continued Rise of Employment Tribunal Claims - The U.K.’s Ministry of Justice has published its quarterly Employment Tribunal statistics for April to June 2018. These quarterly statistics are of particular...more

Suspension of an Employee Was a Fundamental Breach of Contract

In Agoreyo v London Borough of Lambeth [2017] EWHC 2019 (QB), the High Court considered whether the suspension of an employee amounted to a fundamental breach of contract on the part of her employer. A primary school...more

TUPE and Share Sales

In ICAP Management Services Limited v Dean Berry and BGC Services (Holdings) LLP [2017] EWHC 1321, the High Court examined the circumstances in which TUPE may apply to a share sale. Mr Berry was a senior executive at ICAP...more

Protecting Business Interests: Don't Get Stung by an Overly Wide Non-Compete

In Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2017] EWCA Civ 1054 the Court of Appeal examined the enforceability of a non-compete covenant. Ms Tillman was the global co-head of financial services at Egon Zehnder Ltd (EZ), a professional...more

Departing Employees: No Need to Disclose an Intention to Compete

In the case of MPT Group Limited v Peel [2017] EWHC 1222 (Ch), the High Court examined whether departing employees were required to disclose their intention to compete after the expiry of their restrictive covenants. The...more

Expatriate Employees and the Territorial Jurisdiction of U.K. Employment Tribunals

In Green v SIG Trading Ltd [2017] UKEAT 0282_16_2405 the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) examined the test for determining whether a U.K. Employment Tribunal had jurisdiction to hear statutory U.K. employment claims brought...more

Effective Date of Termination Notice Sent by Post

In Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood [2017] EWCA Civ 153, the Court of Appeal (CA) looked at when a notice of termination sent by post takes effect. Ms Haywood’s employment became at risk of redundancy...more

Mobility Clause in Redundancy Situation

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

Territorial Scope of U.K. Discrimination Legislation

In R (Hottak and another) v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2016] EWCA Civ 438, the Court of Appeal considered the territorial reach of U.K. discrimination legislation. The claimants were two...more

Constructive Dismissal and Managing Departures

In Gibbs v Leeds United Football Club Ltd [2016] EWHC 960 (QB), the High Court considered whether changes to an employee’s duties amounted to a fundamental breach of contract entitling him to bring a claim for constructive...more

Reinstatement Following Dismissal

In McBride v Scottish Police Authority [2016] UKSC 27, the Supreme Court considered whether an Employment Tribunal had been wrong to order the reinstatement of an employee on restricted duties. The Employment Tribunal...more

Dismissal for Sharing Confidential Information Was Unfair

In Stimpson v Citibank N.A. ET/3200437/15, Mr Stimpson brought claims for unfair and wrongful dismissal after being dismissed without notice by Citibank N.A. (Citi) for an alleged breach of Citi’s policies on confidential...more

Transfer to Multiple New Employers Can Amount to TUPE Transfer

In Hyde Housing Association Ltd and another v Layton UKEAT/0124/15, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether a transfer to multiple new employers could amount to a TUPE transfer. Mr Layton was employed as...more

Breach of Confidentiality Amounted to Gross Misconduct

In Farnan v Sunderland Association Football Club [2015] EWHC 3759 (QB), the High Court considered whether breaches of confidentiality could amount to gross misconduct justifying dismissing an employee without notice....more

EU Update: Definition of "Redundancy" Extended for Purposes of Collective Redundancy

In Pujante Rivera v Gestora Clubs Dir SL and another (C-422/14), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered whether a resignation resulting from an employer’s unilateral change to an employee’s contract of employment...more

Successful Appeal Against Dismissal Automatically Revives Employment Contract

In Salmon v Castlebeck Care (Teeside) Ltd & Anor UKEAT/0304/14, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether a successful appeal against a decision to dismiss needed to be communicated to the employee in order to...more

New Rules Extend EU Jurisdiction in Employment Contract Disputes

On 10 January 2015, new rules came into force under which an EU-based employee can now bring proceedings arising out of their employment contract against their non-EU employer, even if that employer has no presence in the EU....more

Consideration for Restrictive Covenants

In Re-use Collections Limited v Sendall & May Glass Recycling Limited 2014 EWHC 3852, the High Court considered the enforceability of restrictive covenants introduced during the course of employment and in respect of which no...more

Contract Variations: Implied Acceptance?

In Wess v Science Museum Group UKEAT/0120/14/DM, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether an employee had impliedly accepted a variation of her contract of employment by continuing to work for 9 years, without...more

Employee's Fundamental Breach Was No Bar to Constructive Dismissal Claim

In Atkinson v Community Gateway Association UKEAT/0457/12, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether an employee in fundamental breach of his employment contract could still bring a constructive dismissal claim...more

Court Was Wrong to Re-Write Covenants

In Prophet v Huggett [2014] ECWA Civ 1013, the Court of Appeal has overturned a recent decision of the High Court in which it had re-written a non-compete covenant to give it commercial effect. You may recall that we...more

Constructive Dismissal and Post-Resignation Conduct

In Cockram v Air Products Limited UKEAT/0038/14, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an employee had lost the right to claim constructive dismissal because he had given his employer a much longer notice period than...more

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