Posts Tagged ‘Employment Tribunal’


The CIPD is recommending possible legislation requiring parties to public service disputes to enter an arbitration process prior to industrial action, with extreme measure including a blanket ban on certain strikes.
However, the report, which was written by employee relations adviser Mike Emmott, says the new rules can be avoided through building public sector leadership [...]

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

The European Court of Justice has ruled that employers must account for output tax on the supply of salary sacrifice retail vouchers to employees.
It is believed that, although many employers recover VAT charged to them when they buy retail vouchers, there are likely to be a number of those that do not account [...]

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

A radical overhaul of employment tribunal procedure and administration is being proposed as HR professionals contend with a rising tide of claims from disgruntled employees.
There has been a massive hike in the number of claims accepted by employment tribunals in the past year. The 56% rise reported this month (July) by the Tribunal Services for [...]

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

In the build up to his presentation at September’s Stress Prevention & Mental Wellbeing Forum, Guy Hollebon, Director and Head of Employment at Bevans, offers insights into managing sickness absence through answering what sort of policies should we have in place, what to do when advice from the GP and Occupation Health conflict, how to [...]

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Pregnant women in the armed forces will be given greater protection from discrimination after a ruling by the Employment Tribunal.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission funded the case brought by a female officer against the Royal Air Force in which she claimed she was removed from her job and had her promotion prospects delayed because [...]

Monday, June 7th, 2010

The recent case of Rutherford v. Seymour Pierce Ltd illustrates that employers need to include an express term in the employment contract or bonus scheme to be sure that an employee, who has worked during the relevant performance period, is not entitled to a bonus if he has left employment by the payment date.
Seymour Pierce [...]

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

The Court of Appeal has offered a decision that could result in a substantial increase in compensation payouts for dismissed employees when an employer has failed to follow its disciplinary or capability procedures.
In the case of Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Michael Edwards, a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, is claiming [...]

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Perceptions of male bias in the workplace are much greater among employees in small businesses than in the working population as a whole, according to new findings.
The research, which forms part of IFF Research’s Attitudes to Work study, shows while 10% of employees believe that men are treated better than women at work, this figure [...]

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

A former hedge fund employee has lost her case for discrimination against her boss as a central London unemployment tribunal found her not to be a "persuasive witness".
Jordan Whimmer, 29, also alleged that Mark Lowe, of Nomos Capital, would share his sexual fantasies with her and regularly groped her over a four-year period.
Ms Whimmer, who [...]

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

The GMB union is satisfied with the outcome of an employment tribunal that could cost a local authority hundreds of millions of pounds.
It represented 1,400 women in their claims for equal pay against Birmingham City Council, which it won yesterday (April 27th).
According to a statement, lawyers estimate the level of award to be in the [...]

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

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In the build up to September’s Stress Prevention and Mental Wellbeing event and October’s Employee Wellbeing Forum, Helen Lockett, Director of Programmes, Centre for Mental Health, discusses the impact of mental ill health in the workplace.
At any one time, one worker in six will be experiencing a mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety. [...]

As part of the build up to September’s Employer Branding Summit, HRreview features a piece by Tim Bleszynski & Ebenezer Banful of New Brand Tribalism which – among other topics – considers how a brand can be a powerful tool in employee engagement and loyalty.
“Every business has a soul, a spirit, energy of its own [...]

As part of the build up to October’s Employee Wellbeing Forum 2010, Donald Campbell , Marketing Manager for Team London Bridge, a Business Improvement District, explains the importance of employee retention
It is increasingly prevalent in today’s society that managers find employee retention an ongoing struggle. In the past, employees used to stay in the [...]

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