IT manager constructively dismissed after being denied a company van is awarded £10,000 Mr A Rawlinson worked as an IT Support Manager for Catch22 Multi Academies Trust (MAT), servicing 5 schools within the Trust, all in different locations. He was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...