Writing an Effective Witness Statement for the Employment Tribunal
Witness Statements in the Employment Tribunal As the person making the claim, your witness statement is your “Evidence in Chief”. You will also have to prepare a witness statement for every witness that you are calling to support your case and they must att...
Employment Rights of Interns
Intern Aware says that a paid internship is usually a short-term period of employment aimed at providing you with professional skills and experience. It is different from a work shadowing scheme where you only observe other people working, and different from volunteering where you choose to give up...
Health and Safety, Returning to Work and Coronavirus
Health and Safety on returning to work Your employer has a legal duty to protect and safeguard your welfare and health and safety. This includes a duty to ensure that the working environment is safe. See Legal Rights and Returning to Work: Coronavirus Government Guidance on retu...
Furloughed Worker's Statutory Redundancy and Notice Pay
If you are being made redundant, make sure that your redundancy pay is calculated on your normal unreduced pay, and not your reduced furlough pay. It was unclear whether furloughed workers would be entitled to a statutory redundancy payment based on their normal (unreduced) salar...
The Right to Work in the United Kingdom
The Right to work British citizens and those with settled status have an unconditional right to work in the UK. British Citizens A British Citizen has an unconditional right to work in the UK. There are four ways of getting British citizenship: 1 By birth or adoption [British Nationality...
Having No Contact With Bullying Managers is a Reasonable Adjustment
Reasonable Adjustments In the case of Mrs S Hill v Lloyds Bank PLC [2020], the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an undertaking by an employer to keep an employee away from bullying managers is a reasonable adjustment. Employers have a statutory duty to make rea...
Foster Carers Are Employees
In Glasgow City Council v Johnstone, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that foster carers are employees. The Facts Mr and Mrs Johnstone saw an advert in 2010 that stated, “Glasgow needs foster carers to join us in our new treatment fostering service for young peopl...
Dismissal for Reputational Damage Unfair if not a formal allegation
In K v L the Employment Appeal Tribunal has re-emphasised that in accordance with the principles of natural justice, an employee facing disciplinary action should be able to understand the precise allegations against them so that they can meaningfully put their cas...
Reforms in the Employment Tribunal
On 17th September 2020, the Business Minister, Paul Scully announced reforms to help the Employment Tribunal system operate more effectively in the new normal. The changes to the Employment Tribunal rules will allow more flexibility for remote hearings and reduce the burden on courts, claimants and...
Gender-fluid & Non-binary Workers Are Protected by Equality Act 2010
Under Section 7 of the Equality Act 2010, a person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if they are “proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex by changing physiologica...
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