Category Archives: employment tribunal
Time to get people to help in your business?
Before you know it you need people to help you. Whether it is your family volunteering to help out, interns, apprentices, volunteers, freelancer or staff, your business’s size is affected as much by how you manage these relationships as it is by your customer and service focus.
Don’t be fooled into thinking only employees have rights at work and you can just abolish all your troubles if you call everyone an intern of a freelancer. Continue reading
Don’t let compliance lock you down
Do your contracts and handbooks speak with the right voice for your organisation and set the fundamentals and codes you need for success? Continue reading
Filed under contract, employment law, employment tribunal, free stuff, www.irenicon.co.uk
Teacher claims ‘right to distribute pornography at work’
Miss Henderson worked as a mentor and leader for girls aged 11-16 who had barriers to learning, at inner city school in the London Borough of Hackney. She was sacked for gross misconduct after it was discovered that she had been using … Continue reading
Filed under contract, employment law, employment tribunal, unfair dismissal
Reasonable People
Aligning your decision-making process with what the business needs, and adding in a fair degree of self-challenge at each stage, will allow you to make appropriate decisions for the business without undue fear of legal challenge.
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Filed under employment law, employment tribunal, unfair dismissal
Reasonable but wrong?
It is easy to get caught up in disciplinary investigations and forget to look outside our current thinking. What seems reasonable and self evident to us, at midnight having worked three days on a problem, may seem far from obvious or rational in tribunal a few months later. HR can play a powerful role here – in challenging the evidence and the processes with a view to seeing how robust they are. Continue reading
Filed under discipline and dismissal, employment law, employment tribunal
Pay and bonuses
Women are still underpaid in terms of equal pay and bonus schemes, bonus schemes incentivise the wrong behaviour and UK law has no concept of ‘fair pay’ Continue reading
Filed under contract, employment law, employment tribunal, equal pay
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
Diverse discrimination rights can be hard to align in the workplace. UK HR managers face interesting dilemmas reconciling employment law and multi culturalism Continue reading
Filed under discrimination, employment law, employment tribunal, Equality Bill
Imaginary man would have been treated same way?
Marriott Motor Group and Ors v Cottingdon EAT decision
Hypothetical comparator would have been treated same way
inference of sex discrimination premature
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Filed under discrimination, employment tribunal, www.irenicon.co.uk
