Dismissal

Unfair dismissal case allowed beyond the three month deadline

In John Lewis Partnership v Charman, the EAT allowed an unfair dismissal claim to be brought beyond the usual three month deadline. Read more...

TUPE - Common Sense Prevails

Smith and others v Trustees of Brooklands College related to a situation where, following a TUPE transfer, the employer and transferred employees agreed to change the contractual rates of pay. Read more...

Publicis Consultants UK Ltd v O’Farrell

The EAT has held that where an employee was informed in her dismissal letter that she would receive an ex gratia payment equivalent to three months’ salary, this payment was truly an ex gratia payment. Read more...

Other Developments - July 2011

Here are some other developments which have happened over the last month. 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...

Status Update - Criticising Work on Facebook Can Be OK...

In the case of Whitham v Club 24 Ltd t/a Ventura, the Employment Tribunal found the dismissal of an employee for making derogatory comments about her employer on Facebook to be unfair on the basis that the comments did not specifically refer to a client nor was there any evidence that the client relationship had been harmed or was likely to be harmed as a result of the comments. Read more...

Poachers and Gamekeepers - A Practical Guide to Team Moves

Tips for Gamekeepers Read more...

Key Concepts in Team Move Cases

By Thomas Linden QC and Thomas Kibling, Matrix Chambers Read more...

Firing Senior Employees

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...

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...

Reputational Damage Through Social Media

According to a recent research study by DLA Piper, 31% of those employers surveyed had implemented disciplinary proceedings because of the information that an employee had displayed on a social media site about the employer. 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...