Compare and contrast – pension based on hours reduced because of disability was not discriminatory

The Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT decision in Williams v The Trustees of Swansea University Pension & Assurance Scheme that it was not discrimination arising from a disability to calculate an ill-health retirement pension by reference to the part-time salary the claimant was earning at the point of retirement.

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Too close for comfort? Tribunal ought to have considered whether an internal disciplinary process should have been postponed pending criminal proceedings

The EAT in Cooper v National Crime Agency decided that a tribunal had failed to consider how a practice of information-sharing between the employer and the police might prejudice the ability of an employee facing criminal proceedings to participate in the internal disciplinary process.

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Summer break

This is our last newsletter before the summer holidays; we will report on developments over the break at the beginning of September. Please click here for Great Expectations, our summary of employment law developments we are expecting in the second half of 2017.

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