Friday August 20, 2010 at 9:20am
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....
Monday June 14, 2010 at 4:13pm
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....