• 14 May 2020
• Employment

Settlement Agreements – What Are They?

A settlement agreement (or compromise agreement as it used to be known) is a contract between an employee and employer.

• 20 September 2019
• Employment

Statutory redundancy pay was not caught by the £25,000 breach of contract cap

In Uradar v Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, the Claimant was made redundant and had a contractual redundancy entitlement of £43,949.04. The Trust refused to pay, claiming she had turned down suitable alternative employment.

• 08 August 2019
• Employment

Government responds to consultation extending parents’ redundancy protection

Earlier this year the government ran a consultation on how and whether to extend the redundancy protection for pregnant women and new parents

• 01 August 2019
• Employment

Enhance redundancy protections for pregnant women and new parents

It is estimated that up to 54,000 women a year lose their jobs as a result of pregnancy or maternity discrimination with 37% of women feeling isolated to the point of resignation following a return from maternity leave.The law already specifically protects employees from unfavourable treatment because they are pregnant or on maternity leave, at any time from the beginning of the pregnancy to their return to work after maternity leave.