Compensation for injury to feelings
If a tribunal upholds a discrimination claim, they can award compensation. Compensation can include an amount for ‘injury to feelings’.
Managing Your Millennials
Are you managing your millennials properly? Natalie Salunke, Head of Legal, Europe at Fleetcor, and a millennial herself, has written an article on this topic. ‘Millennial’ is a term used to describe the generation born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s.
Final written warnings
An employee can be fairly dismissed for misconduct (rather than gross misconduct) if they already have a final written warning in place.
Confidentiality clauses
The government has launched a consultation on preventing the misuse of confidentiality clauses in harassment and discrimination situations. These non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) can be a useful tool for employers in settling disputes whilst preventing reputational damage. The government wants to clarify how far NDAs can go. It wants employers to say explicitly in agreements that…
Maternity discrimination
An employer discriminates against a woman if they treat her unfavourably because she is taking maternity leave. In SW Yorkshire NHS Trust v Jackson, the employee was on maternity leave when redundancies were announced.
Disability Discrimination
Discrimination arising from disability is where an employer treats an employee less favourably because of ‘something’ which results from their disability, and which can’t be justified.
Constructive dismissal as a consequence of suspension
In order to suspend an employee fairly, an employer must have reasonable and proper cause for doing so. If not, suspension could breach the implied term of mutual trust and confidence and create a constructive dismissal.
Disciplinaries and criminal proceedings
In professional misconduct cases, a criminal investigation often sits alongside a disciplinary investigation.
Slips, Trips and Falls – Free Downloadable Poster
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day 2019 is held on May 17th. Get your free Slips, trips and falls downloadable poster Slips, trips and falls are associated with more fatal and major injuries than any other kind of injury. According to the HSE falls from height accounts for nearly three in ten fatal injuries to workers (41…
Mental Health Week
According to the 2017 Stevenson Farmer report, the cost to employers of mental ill-health is between £33 – 42 billion every year, whilst the cost to government is estimated to be between £24 and 27 billion. In total the cost of poor mental health to the UK economy is somewhere between £74 – £99 billion…