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Off-payroll Working People sometimes work through an intermediary, such as their own personal services company. Companies generally label these arrangements as self-employment or a contract for...
How to gross up your schedule of loss
What does grossing up your schedule of loss mean? Grossing up is an important calculation in your schedule of loss to work out how much compensation you should receive after tax, so that you get th...
Collecting Evidence for your Schedule of Loss
Collecting Evidence for your Schedule of Loss You need to back up your claim with evidence that will help the Employment Tribunal understand, check and calculate the figures in your schedule of los...
Why is the Schedule of Loss important? A Schedule of Loss is very important for your Employment Tribunal claim. It is very important for your Employment Tribunal claim since it tells the Judge ...
What Does ‘Mitigation of Loss' Mean? You have a duty to mitigate your loss if you are unfairly or wrongfully dismissed. This means that you should minimise your losses by taking steps to ...
Without Prejudice Subject to Costs Offers and The Employment Tribunal
What Does ‘without Prejudice and Subject to Costs’ Mean? Once you file a claim in the Employment Tribunal (ET), preparation for the hearing usually runs parallel with settlement negotiations. S...
What is a Breach of Contract? A breach of contract happens when either you or your Employer breaks one of the terms of the employment contract. For example, if your Employer doesn’t pay your wa...
The Effective Date of Termination
What is the EDT? The Effective Date of Termination (EDT) is the date your employment ended and is laid out in s97 ERA 1996. It is very important in unfair dismissal because it sets the end of your...
Layout of The Employment Tribunal Hearing Room
Layout of the Employment Tribunal Hearing Room ...
What is Termination of Employment? Your employment contract can be brought to an end in many different ways. This is called termination. Termination can be resignation, dismissal, redundancy or ret...
What is a Breach of Contract? A breach of contract happens when either you or your Employer breaks one of the terms of the employment contract. For example, if your Employer doesn’t pay your wa...
Personal Information About Criminal Convictions and Offences
Information about Criminal Convictions or Offences Schedule 1 DPA 2018 deals with the special categories of data and criminal convictions. Criminal convictions data is a special type of data und...
Employment Rights of Apprentices
What is an Apprenticeship? There are two legal forms of apprenticeship: A Common Law Apprenticeship – a traditional contract of apprenticeship which is governed by the common law. A ...
Terms of your Employment Contract
Contract Terms An employment contract is a document in which you and your employer agree on the work that you are going to do, how you will do it and when. Your employer agrees to pay you an amount...
Document And Template
Use the schedule or statement of costs to set out what you want the Employment Tribunal to award in your application for costs order. Use it with the Application for a costs order. ...
Application for disclosure of information
How to use the application for disclosure template Make sure to read the guidance that comes with the template before you complete it. Email your application to the employment tribunal with...
Letter to the other side for disclosure of documents
How to use the template letter for disclosure of documents Make sure to read the guidance that comes with the template before you complete it. Email your application to the other side with t...
How to use the costs points of dispute form Make sure to read the guidance that comes with the template before you complete it. Email your application to the employment tribunal with the sub...
Application for reconsideration of an employment tribunal judgment or decision
How to use the application template for reconsideration of a judgment or decision Email your application to the employment tribunal with the subject, your case name and number on the subjec...
News
What is a Trade Unions duty of care when advising on Employment Disputes?
Trade Unions Duty of Care In the High Court case of Langley v GMB and ors, Paul Langley sued his trade union GMB, trade union Law (Unionline) and Katharina Koester who was a solicitor working ...
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...
It Is Not Discriminatory to Pay Women More Says Court of Appeal
Ali v Capita and Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police (joined cases) The Court of Appeal heard these two cases together and ultimately decided that it is not discriminatory...
Unlawful Inducement of Trade Union Members
Inducements to trade union members to forgo collective bargaining are normally unlawful and employers risk sanctions if a court finds them guilty of unlawful inducements, however this risk for emp...
Equal Pay: Court of Appeal Rules in Favour of ASDA Employees
Brierley and Ors v Asda Stores Ltd [2019] EWCA CIV 44 Over 7,000 predominantly female retail employees brought equal pay claims against ASDA in the Employment Tribunal. The first hurdle to ov...
Sacked Employees of Foster Partnership Awarded £114k in Total
A defunct Kent firm has been ordered to pay £114,000 to former employees after a string of employment law breaches. The Foster Partnership was shut down last October after an intervention by the...
List of Critical Sector Workers in the Coronavirus Outbreak
Guidance on Critical Sector Workers The Government has published Guidance for schools, colleges and local authorities on maintaining educational provision with the detail of critical sector worke...
A Flawed Disciplinary Investigation Will Lead to a Finding of Unfair Dismissal
In Uddin v London Borough of Ealing [2020] the investigator withheld information from the disciplinary panel, leading to a finding of unfair dismissal by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). ...
Is It fair to dismiss an employee who has been charged with a Criminal Offence, but not Convicted?
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled in Allan Lafferty v Nuffield Health [2019] , that an employer can dismiss an employee who has been charged with, but not convicted of a criminal offence. ...
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-empl...
Consequences of a Flawed Disciplinary Investigation
Your employer must be procedurally fair during a disciplinary investigation. The case of Retirement Security Ltd v Miss A. Wilson illustrates the impact of a flawed disciplinary investigation on ...
Guidance on percentage uplift for breach of the ACAS Code
Guidance on uplift for breach of the ACAS Code In the case of Sir Benjamin Slade Baronet & Anor v Biggs & Others [2021] , the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has given guidance on how to assess ...
Is fear of catching COVID-19 a protected belief?
Fear of catching COVID-19 and the Equality Act 2010 In X v Y, the Employment Tribunal (ET) said that X’s fear of catching COVID-19, and her belief that she needed to protect herself and her partn...
Court of Appeal cancels fire and rehire injunction
Fire and re-hire Earlier this year the High Court granted USDAW (trade union) an injunction to prevent Tesco from ‘firing and rehiring” employees in order to remove a negotiated entitlement ...
Lack of facilities for breastfeeding is discrimination
Forcing an employee to feed a baby in the toilets and car is sex discrimination In the case of Mellor v The AFG Academies Trust , the Employment Tribunal has ruled that an employer’s failure to ...
Guides
How to Prepare Your Schedule of Loss for the Employment Tribunal
The Employment Tribunal will usually order you to prepare your schedule of loss quite early in the proceedings, so that it can be used in settlement negotiations, or judicial mediation. It is a good i...
How to prepare a scott schedule for a victimisation claim
This Scott Schedule is for a victimisation claim under section 27 of the Equality Act 2010. It will help you identify the questions that you want the Employment Judge to decide, in accordance with the...
How to prepare a scott schedule for a harassment claim
This Scott Schedule is for a harassment claim under section 26 of the Equality Act 2010. If your claim is for sexual harassment, do not use this Guide. Instead use the Scott Schedule for sexual harass...
How to prepare a scott schedule for a sexual harassment claim
This Scott Schedule is for a sexual harassment claim under Sections 26(2) and (3) of the Equality Act 2010. It will help you identify the questions that you want the Employment Judge to decide, in acc...
How to prepare a scott schedule for a direct discrimination claim
This Scott Schedule is for a direct discrimination claim under section 13 of the Equality Act 2010. It will help you identify the questions that you want the Employment Judge to decide, in accordance ...
How to write a grievance about the behaviour of a colleague
This Guide provides in depth direction on writing a grievance about the behaviour of a colleague, manager or supervisor. There is a difference between strong management and bullying behaviour. AC...
Employment tribunal breach of contract claim guide
Breach of contract claims in the Employment Tribunal are enabled under section 3 of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (ETA 1996) and the Employment Tribunals Extension of Jurisdiction (England and Wa...