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  • 04 September 2017
  • Employment

Tribunal fees: should you prepare for a deluge of claims and what happens next?

It has been a tumultuous few years for the Conservative party and the recent Supreme Court ruling has added to the party’s list of woes. The government will now have to repay £32m to parties following the Court’s unanimous decision that the tribunal fee regime was unlawful.
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  • 11 August 2017
  • Employment

Tribunal Fees: Resurrecting rejected claims?

The Supreme Court decision on 26 July 2017 that Employment Tribunal fees were unlawful was expected to have wide-ranging repercussions

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  • 02 June 2017
  • Employment

“Mini” strike exposes major pension issues

In April workers at BMW’s UK plants started a wave of one day strikes, halting the output of the iconic Mini. This is the first ever walkout by staff at these sites and the cause was BMW’s plan to close a defined-benefit pension scheme and replace it with a contribution-based scheme, a move the Unite union believe will cost workers up to £160,000 in lost income.
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  • 02 June 2017
  • Employment

Supreme Court determines pay deduction rate for employees on strike

In Hartley v King Edward VI College, the Claimants were teachers who participated in a full day of lawful strike action. Their employment contracts permitted pay to be deducted for any days on lawful strikes but did not specify the calculation to be applied. The employer deducted 1/260 of their annual pay, basing the calculation on working days in a year rather than calendar days.
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  • 02 June 2017
  • Employment

Employer’s belief disclosure was not protected was not relevant

It is automatically unfair to dismiss an employee on the basis that he or she has made a protected disclosure, more commonly known as ‘whistleblowing’. The Court of Appeal, in Beatt v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, has made clear that an employer’s belief that a disclosure was not protected is irrelevant in such dismissals.
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  • 04 May 2017
  • Employment

Could Type 2 diabetes be a disability under the Equality Act 2010?

Under the Equality Act 2010, a person with a progressive condition (such as Type 2 Diabetes) has a disability if they 'have a physical or mental impairment' which 'has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities... as a result of the condition.'
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  • 03 May 2017
  • Employment

We Are The City: Gender Pay Gap Regulation

Employment partner and HR extraordinaire Helen Beech discusses the Gender Pay Gap Regulation and why the call for information should be just as important to SMEs as it is to large corporations.
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  • 10 April 2017
  • Construction

Potential liabilities in construction industry

Clarkslegal takes a look at modern slavery in the construction industry and outlines some actions employers should take to protect their workforce and their reputation
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  • 22 March 2017
  • Employment

Risk of Racism in the Workplace

With emotions running high on both sides, an increase in racial abuse and hate crime has been reported since the UK voted to leave the EU. A recent report called “Race at Work” by Business in the Community revealed the presence of racial harassment and bullying remained present in numerous organisations.
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