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  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Varying terms and conditions procedure

    A model procedure to set out the steps that the organisation will take when it seeks to vary terms and conditions of employment.

  • Date:
    2 May 2018
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Variation of contract: Working without protest did not mean acceptance

    In Abrahall and others v Nottingham City Council and another, the Court of Appeal held that a number of employees who had continued to work without protest throughout a two-year pay freeze had not agreed to a variation of their contracts of employment.

  • Date:
    8 February 2018
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Restrictive covenants: Non-compete clause too wide to be enforceable

    In Tillman v Egon Zehnder, the Court of Appeal held that a six-month non-compete clause that prevented the employee from being "concerned or interested in any business carried on in competition" after termination of employment was unenforceable as it would bar her from being a shareholder in a competing business.

  • Date:
    5 December 2017
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    False reason for dismissal breaches implied term of trust and confidence

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the employer acted in breach of the implied term to maintain trust and confidence by giving a misleading reason for the employee's dismissal.

  • Date:
    25 August 2017
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    High Court ruling on use of work computer for personal emails

    The High Court has held that an employee had no reasonable expectation of privacy when he used his employer's computer system to create,and transmit, personal email correspondence in the course of his employment.

  • Date:
    24 August 2017
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Breach of contract: Suspension is not a neutral act or default position

    The High Court has held that the suspension of a teacher was a "knee-jerk" reaction and in breach of the implied term of trust and confidence between the employer and employee.

  • Date:
    1 July 2017
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Kirsti Laird is senior associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. She rounds up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    3 April 2017
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Breach of contract: £25,000 award for apprentice whose apprenticeship ended early

    An employment tribunal has awarded £25,000 for breach of contract to an apprentice whose contract of apprenticeship, which was due to run for four years, was terminated after less than two years.

  • Date:
    30 March 2017
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Summary dismissal: Negligent failure to act amounted to gross misconduct

    In Adesokan v Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd [2017] IRLR 346 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee's negligent failure to act constituted gross misconduct justifying summary dismissal.

  • Date:
    6 March 2017
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Breach of contract: nominal damages for misuse of confidential information

    The High Court has held that two ex-employees breached their contracts of employment by misusing confidential information belonging to their former employer's business. However, the High Court found that the employer had not suffered any financial loss and that it was entitled to only nominal damages of £1 from each employee.

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