The media love a good employment tribunal case involving City types. So unless there is some form of last minute settlement, watch out for reports later today on the pensions case being brought by Peter Bloxham, a former insolvency partner at law firm Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer.
Even more exciting than the fact that Bloxham works for a City law firm (think multi-million pound claims rather than the few thousand that most such cases involve) is the fact that this could be one of the first big cases involving the age discrimination legislation.
This morning’s Financial Times reports that there are numerous age discrimination cases waiting to be heard. Between October last year and June of this year, 972 cases were filed with the Employment Tribunal Service.
Whilst on the subject, our colleagues at Equal Opportunities Review are putting the finishing touches to their discrimination compensation survey, an annual report full of data on the sort of payouts employers have had to make under the different strands of equalities legislation.
The report will be on XpertHR shortly.
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Update. Here's a report of the first day at the tribunal.
Posted by mark crail | July 11, 2007 9:19 AM
Posted on July 11, 2007 09:19
How long will it be before the litigious UK catches up... not long. Experience from Ireland leads us in good judiciary directions, keep in touch with www.sankeyconsultancy.co.uk
Posted by Mike Walker | July 16, 2007 6:03 PM
Posted on July 16, 2007 18:03