News & Analysis as of September 19, 2024

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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

UK HR Two-Minute Monthly: May 2024

BCLP on 5/30/2024

Our May update includes a case on whistleblowing where the claimant’s belief in the disclosures was questioned along with whether decision makers who knew little or nothing about the disclosures could be blamed for those who...more

UK HR Two-Minute Monthly: June 2023

BCLP on 6/27/2023

Our June update includes cases on whether an employer notified of an employee’s pregnancy just before termination is liable for a pregnancy dismissal, whether an employer’s future discovery of a disability makes it...more

UK HR two-minute monthly: April 2023

BCLP on 4/26/2023

Our April update includes cases on religious belief discrimination in the education sector, with a school chaplain preaching to pupils his views on same-sex marriage, a case considering whether the potentially disruptive...more

Employment Newsletter: TUPE, disability, unfair dismissal, tribunal limits

Hogan Lovells on 3/4/2019

No objection – TUPE was principal reason for dismissal - In Hare Wines Ltd v Kaur, the Court of Appeal confirmed that a TUPE transfer was the principal reason for an employee's dismissal, despite the employer's evidence...more

U.K. Employment Law Update: Notice of Termination, Disability Discrimination and Summary Dismissals

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 9/4/2018

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

Littler Global Guide - United Kingdom - Q2 2018

Littler on 7/23/2018

Data Protection Act 2018 Enacted - New Legislation Enacted - Effective May 25, 2018, the UK Data Protection Act transposes the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law, thereby replacing the Data...more

When Do Employers Have Constructive Knowledge of Disability?

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/1/2018

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

Employment News - June 2017 #2

Hogan Lovells on 6/12/2017

Keep it for later – European Court's Advocate General issues Opinion that the right to paid leave can be carried over if employer has not offered it - According to the preliminary Opinion of the European Court in The Sash...more

Case alert: Failure to interview disabled employee amounted to disability discrimination

K&L Gates LLP on 8/27/2014

In London Borough of Southwark v Charles, the EAT decided that the London Borough of Southwark (the "Borough") had failed in its duty to make reasonable adjustments when it refused to assess by other less formal means the...more

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