In the recent case of Toy v Chief Constable of Leicestershire, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that the Chief Constable did not and could not reasonably have been expected to know that the Claimant suffered from dyslexia...
Yes, held the Supreme Court in the recent case of Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. An employment tribunal had been entitled to find that the dismissal was in the range of reasonable responses.
This case has far reaching implications for practices across many sectors within the economy. In this case The Harpur Trust seeks a common-sense interpretation of the Working Time Regulations (WTR) and recognition that working part of the year...
In a recent case, the Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that an expectation for a disabled employee to work long hours amounted to...
Is evidence showing females clustered at the lower end of the pay scale and males clustered at the higher end of the pay scale sufficient to show that females are suffering from a 'particular disadvantage' under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010)?
In the recent case of Porras Guisado v Bankia SA and others (Case C-103/16), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that pregnant workers are not entitled to special treatment in a collective redundancy exercise.
In the recent case of Kocur v Angard Staffing Solutions Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a failure to give qualifying agency workers the same basic terms and conditions as employees...
2017 was a significant year for employment law and this looks like it will continue into 2018. We have set out the key employment law issues which might affect schools in 2018.
In a recent case involving Keeping Kids Company (KKC), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld the Employment Tribunal's (ET) decision that KKC was in breach of its collective consultation obligations.
