by Solutions for HR | Jul 10, 2018 | Employment Law News
Awarded more than £4,000 in unpaid wages A college student on a zero-hours contract has been awarded more than £4,000 in unpaid wages, despite taking up a new full-time job midway through a nine-month suspension from her zero hours’ role. The EAT ruled that Obi’s...
by Solutions for HR | Jun 19, 2018 | Employment Law News
Depressed worker fired for making ‘offensive’ drawings was unfairly dismissed In a similar set of circumstances to the “Horror film case”, a data analyst who was fired for gross misconduct, after his colleagues discovered a notebook containing “sexually violent...
by Solutions for HR | Jun 19, 2018 | Employment Law News
This is the case of the former head of English who was suffering from stress exacerbated by cystic fibrosis He was dismissed after screening an 18-rated horror movie to 15 and 16-year-olds despite explaining in mitigation that his judgement was affected by his stress....
by Solutions for HR | Jun 19, 2018 | Employment Law News
Employer told to pay £11,000 for creating a ‘maternity pause’ clause in relation to training costs A former optician was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against after her employer tried to use a contractual ‘pause clause’ to reclaim training costs when she didn’t...
by Solutions for HR | Jun 19, 2018 | Employment Law News
The Pimlico Plumbers tribunal is headline news and the Supreme Court have determined last week that Mr Smith was a ‘worker’ under s230(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act For Mr Smith to qualify as a worker, the Supreme Court had to find that he had undertaken to...
by Solutions for HR | May 30, 2018 | Employment Law News
The issue of ‘bumping’ has raised its head again recently in the case of Mirab v Mentor Graphics In this case, the claimant employee was employed as the company’s only sales director. He argued that his redundancy was unfair because, among other things, his employer...
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