Employment Tribunals Posts

So we know that the Default Retirement Age (DRA) is to be phased out this year, the government has confirmed. The BBC observe that this means employers will no longer be allowed to dismiss staff just because they have reached the age of 65. The Department for Business said that as well as benefiting individuals, "the freedom to work for longer will provide a boost to the UK economy". Presently, firms can use the DRA to make staff retire at 65. Ditching the DRA was first propo....

In its quest to be considered pro jobs creation, the government is considering calls for employees taking a company to tribunal to pay a fee which would be refunded if the claimant won the case. The previous Government looked into the idea of implementing a fee-based system nearly ten years ago and the current Coalition is now considering the introduction of a fee of anywhere between £30 and £500 after figures showed a 56 per cent rise in claims over the past 12 months....

According to legally-obtained documents regarding the TV Licence-funded organisation, the BBC paid out £379,125 to settle cases regarding treatment or employee benefits brought forward by staff, while £203,627 plus VAT was spent on lawyer's fees. There was also an additional £24,386 plus VAT spent as a contribution to one claimant's legal costs, it was added. Overall, there were 33 employment claims lodged by disgruntled employees against the BBC last year. Of these, ....

A case involving constructive dismissal has been receiving attention, involving Ms Juliette Giscombe, who is from Streatham in south London and is the mother of comedian Richard Blackwood. She issued the case against Hilton Park Lane hotel. One of the problems of this case is that both parties are now engaged in mutual destruction as the case goes to Tribunal. The Claimant(employee) has played the race card and claimed the hotel did not recruit black staff to work in front-of-house posit....

Employment lawyers and human resource consultants in their quest for raised profile like to talk about the new legislation and how this is going to change the way we work. All well and good. One of the issues which I come across in my capacity as employment lawyer and mediator is the pre-determined sacking. Essentially an organisation embarks the dismissal of someone, frequently though not exclusively by means of redundancy. It is done via the guise of legal compliance, but the sad fact is th....

Something must be seriously wrong when a senior judge is advising people to keep as far away from the law as possible. The comments were made by Lord Justice Mummery in a Court of Appeal decision. He was considering whether to allow an appeal by a restaurant owner who had been ordered to pay £14,777 in compensation to a former employee for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination. The restaurant owner, David Piper, had attempted to lodge his notice of appeal with the Employment Appea....