Reasonable Adjustments and Provision, Criterion or Practice (PCP)
In disability discrimination claims, employers have a duty to make reasonable adjustments if the disabled person has been put at a substantial disadvantage by a ‘provision, criterion or practice’ (PCP) imposed by the employer compared to someone who is not disabled [s...
No Vicarious Liability for Vindictive Actions of Employees
Vicarious Liability Morrisons Supermarkets are breathing a sigh of relief since the Supreme Court ruling that they are not vicariously liable for a deliberate data breach by a disgruntled ex-employee who exposed personal data of almost 100,000 of its employees. ...
Coronavirus Furlough Scheme: Questions & Answers
The Coronavirus Furlough Scheme applies to all workers who were on the PAYE payroll on or before 28 February 2020. Workers hired after 28 February 2020 cannot be furloughed. Your employer can pay full pay but will only receive a refund from the Government of 80% of your wages up to a...
Measures Announced to Combat Sexual Harassment at Work
Measures announced to combat Sexual Harassment at Work The Women and Equalities Select Committee reported earlier this year that sexual harassment in the workplace is “widespread and commonplace”. It recommended that the government put sexual harassment at the top...
The Stalking Protection Act 2019
This new Act provides stalking protection orders. These are civil orders available on application by a chief officer of police to the magistrate’s court. They are bespoke orders, which can be positive (requirements) or negative (prohibitions) in nature, and they are de...
Whistleblowing Protection
Whistleblowers have the right not to be dismissed or subjected to detrimental treatment because they have whistle blown. Up until the case of Bilsbrough v Berry Marketing Services Ltd , there has been no protection for those who are getting ready to whistleblow. In this c...
New EU Protection for Whistleblowers
On 7 October 2019 the European Council approved the Whistleblower Protection Directive. The Directive guarantees a high level protection to whistle-blowers across a wide range of sectors including public procurement, financial services, money laundering, product and transport safety, nuclear sa...
Is There a Difference Between Strong Management and Bullying at Work?
ACAS describes bullying at work as ‘offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting behaviour, an abuse or misuse of power through means that undermine, humiliate, denigrate or injure the recipient’. In its Bullying and Harassment at Work Guide ACAS says that the...
Legal Right to Paid Parental Bereavement Leave
The legal right to paid parental bereavement leave is called “Jack’s Law” in memory of Jack Herd whose mother Lucy campaigned tirelessly for 10 years on the issue. Lucy’s 23-month-old son Jack, drowned in a pond in 2010 and his father returned to work just three days aft...
Who Regulates and Enforces Employment Rights?
Is your answer to this question, ‘the state’? If it is, then you are wrong. Parliament provides protective employment rights, but it is individual workers and trade unions who have the primary role in enforcing those rights. Employment rights are provided through employm...
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