Former Cleveland police officer, Mark Dias, experienced discrimination and bullying whilst working at Cleveland Police force. His claim for damages relating to discrimination, victimisation and whistleblowing has been settled for £500,000 four years after he left the firm in 2013. Read more...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recently given a judgment in Barbulescu v. Romania that protects the privacy of employees when sending and receiving emails in the workplace. Read more...
The Court of Appeal has decided in the case of Chesterton Global Ltd v Nurmohamed [2017] that a disclosure made in the private interests of a worker, can be in the public interest, and therefore protected under the Employment Rights Act 1996. Read more...
The London Central employment tribunal has ruled that a former bike courier for Addison Lee was a worker, not an “independent contractor”, and therefore was entitled to employment rights that were not afforded to him, such as holiday pay and the national minimum wage Read more...
The Government has announced the abolition of employment tribunal fees following the Supreme Court’s ruling that they are unlawful. This will affect claimants who have brought cases regarding matters, such as unfair dismissal, discrimination and other work place issues, since the introduction of tribunal fees by then Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling in July 2013 Read more...
A government commissioned inquiry into controversial working practices will order an overhaul of zero-hour contracts Read more...
Employment status is central to the exercise of employment rights. How an individual is categorised affects the rights that an individual can assert and the remedies that can be sought. The different types of status that exist – “employee”, “worker” and “self-employed” – creates confusion and uncertainty on both sides of the relationship. The lack of clear statutory definition for each category only reinforces this ambiguity. The status of “employee” provides the greatest statutory rights. Read more...