Currently, bringing an employment tribunal (ET) claim is free of charge. However, the cost of running the ET service is £84 million per annum. Earlier this year, as part of the Government’s Employment Law Review programme, the Ministry of Justice…
A service provision change under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) takes place when, immediately before the transfer, there is an ‘organised grouping of employees’ situated in Great Britain which has as its principal purpose the…
Businesses will welcome an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) finding that, in some straightforward redundancy situations, where a decision is made to eliminate a single role, it may be reasonable for an employer not to consider establishing a selection pool. In…
A council has been fined £250,000 following the dumping of former employees' pension records in an over-filled paper recycling bin in a public car park. The council had outsourced the digitisation of the records to a third-party processor without agreeing…
A recent High Court decision is a reminder that businesses should consistently follow their chosen methods of incorporating standard terms, such as printing terms on the back of documents and retaining copies of signed agreements. The case concerned a claim…
The High Court has imposed custodial sentences on two defendants who had been found to be in contempt of court after breaching a freezing injunction over a company's assets. The shareholder and company director were sentenced to nine and six…
The ban on age discrimination in the provision of goods, services and facilities (introduced by the Equality Act 2010) will come into force on 1 October 2012. Businesses must ensure that the way they provide their services to members of…
In the second case of its kind, Lion Steel Ltd has been fined £480,000 for corporate manslaughter following the death of an employee who fell through a roof. The court ordered the company to pay the fine in four annual…
The staging timetable for when employers in the UK must automatically enrol eligible jobholders in a pension scheme has been finalised. The new regulations, which come into force on 1 October 2012, revise the current implementation timetable so that small…
When a company made its managing director redundant, it agreed to give him six months' pay in lieu of notice. However, which it subsequently discovered that he had previously committed an act of gross misconduct, it refused to pay. The…
