Redundancy

Avoiding discrimination claims when making redundancies

Eversheds Legal Services Ltd v De Belin serves as a reminder of the dangers of trying to avoid discrimination claims from a particular class of employee when making redundancies. Read more...

Collective redundancy

A couple of cases involving collective redundancy situations and the EAT's decisions. Read more...

Lancaster v TBWA Manchester

In Lancaster v TBWA Manchester the EAT upheld a Tribunal’s decision that an employer did not breach its duty to make reasonable adjustments by refusing to replace subjective redundancy selection criteria with objective redundancy selection criteria. Read more...

George's Marvellous Medicine for Employers?

At the Conservative party conference, George Osborne announced that the qualifying period for unfair dismissal will be increased from one to two years with effect from April 2012. In addition, fees for bringing Employment Tribunal claims will also be introduced from April 2013. Read more...

Dismissing Senior Executives

Dismissing directors or other senior employees can be one of the most difficult situations a business has to deal with and not just from an employment law perspective. Read more...

Employment Law Reform

Vince Cable announced reforms to the employment law system aimed at providing a more flexible framework for businesses. Read more...

The News of the World, Ignorance and the "Nuremberg Defence"

Recent events at the News of the World have attracted much attention in relation to criminal acts, but they also raise some interesting employment law issues. Read more...