Insights

1st August 2017

In this article, Sarah Lee considers a recent Court of Appeal case on whistle-blowing which decided that an Employment Tribunal should consider awarding long-term loss of earnings to a worker whose engagement was terminated because he made a protected disclosure because of the “stigma” he had suffered and the difficulty of finding another job, even though the worker did not claim these losses!

1st August 2017

In this article, Heyma Holmes reviews the case of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) v Bailey, a Court of Appeal case which concerned a police officer who claimed direct race discrimination and victimisation. The question asked of the court was “when an employee suffers a detriment which is inextricably linked to a protected act, is that detriment done because of the protected act?”

1st August 2017

In this article, we consider a recent case which considered when the reasonableness of a non-compete clause should be judged where restrictive covenants were entered into by a junior employee who had subsequently been promoted to a very senior role by the time their employment terminated.

1st August 2017

In this article, Lisa Gettins discusses the recent Court of Appeal case of Chesterton Global Limited v Nurmohamed which resulted in extending the protection of whistle-blowers

31st July 2017

The Employment Appeal Tribunal have this morning confirmed that voluntary overtime should form part of workers holiday pay.

26th July 2017

The Supreme Court ruled that the introduction of Employment Tribunal fees in 2013 was in fact unlawful and blocked access to justice for tens of thousands of people over the course of the last 4 years.