As expected, in the United Kingdom there has been an increase in employees seeking to bring claims of automatic unfair dismissal where they have been dismissed for...more
1/27/2022
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Infectious Diseases ,
International Labor Laws ,
UK ,
Unfair Dismissal ,
Workplace Safety
With over half the adult population having now received their first vaccine, many employers will be wondering how they can use the vaccine rollout to get employees back into workplaces....more
4/1/2021
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Data Protection ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Risk Management ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
With the extremely exciting news of the first COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out today in the UK, many UK employers will be getting excited for a potential return to “normal” in 2021 and what the vaccine might mean for their...more
At the end of 2019, courts in the UK decided that ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief under discrimination legislation. This decision has led to very strong opinions from lawyers, the public and the press as...more
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) provided useful clarity on when an act by an employee is done “in the course of employment” making the employer liable. The claimant had seen a colleague’s social media post featuring a...more
10/16/2019
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Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Holiday Pay ,
International Labor Laws ,
Offensive Language ,
Post-Termination Acts ,
Social Media ,
Social Media Policy ,
UK ,
UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ,
Wage and Hour
Enhanced Shared Parental Pay Lower than Enhanced Maternity Pay Not Discriminatory -
Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency -
On May 24, 2019, the UK Court of Appeal held that it is not discriminatory...more
7/17/2019
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Holiday Pay ,
International Labor Laws ,
Jurisdiction ,
Maternity Leave ,
Over-Time ,
Parental Leave ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Regulatory Agencies ,
Religious Expression ,
UK ,
UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ,
Wage and Hour
The Court of Appeal in the United Kingdom recently held that the dismissal of a nurse for improperly proselytising at work was fair (Kuteh v Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust)....more
6/14/2019
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Corporate Counsel ,
Disciplinary Proceedings ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Nurses ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Religious Expression ,
UK ,
UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ,
Unfair Dismissal
I’m sure readers saw the title of this article and thought “what!? White straight men are the most represented group in businesses!” Nonetheless, an employment tribunal in the United Kingdom recently held that a strong...more
The new Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018, which was enacted on September 13 and will come into effect in 2020, grants parents who experience the loss of a child under 18 or a stillbirth after 24 weeks of...more
10/11/2018
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Bereavement Leave ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Domestic Workers ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Internal Investigations ,
International Labor Laws ,
New Legislation ,
Parental Leave ,
Rest and Meal Break ,
UK ,
Wage and Hour
German Church's Religious Occupational Requirement Subject to Judicial Scrutiny -
Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency -
On April 17, 2018, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) held that German laws...more
8/1/2018
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
EFTA ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
EU ,
Fixed-Term Labor Contracts ,
Freedom of Religion ,
Germany ,
Hiring & Firing ,
International Labor Laws ,
LGBTQ ,
Pensions ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Transgender ,
Traveling Employee ,
Wage and Hour ,
Working Time Regulations
The United Kingdom Supreme Court recently held that an individual who worked for Pimlico Plumbers as an “independent contractor” was in fact a “worker.” Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Gary Smith [2018] UKSC 29....more
7/27/2018
/ Disability Discrimination ,
Employee Definition ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Gig Economy ,
Independent Contractors ,
Misclassification ,
UK ,
UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ,
Unpaid Wages ,
Wage and Hour