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  • Date:
    1 March 2014
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    David Malamatenios is a partner and Krishna Santra, Sandra Martins and Colin Makin are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    16 May 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Employment status: Supreme Court decides church minister was not an employee

    The Supreme Court has restored the employment tribunal decision that a minister of religion was not an employee and could not therefore claim unfair dismissal.

  • Date:
    1 April 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Claire Thomas is managing associate, and Chris McAvoy, Joelle Parkinson, David Rintoul, and Gerri Hurst associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    14 February 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case of the week: Employment status

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers the employment status of a dancer in Stringfellows.

  • Date:
    23 January 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Acas code of practice: Uplift to compensation for failure to follow code not available to workers

    In Local Government Yorkshire and Humber v Shah EAT/0587/11 & EAT/0026/12, the EAT held that the potential uplift in compensation awarded where an employer unreasonably fails to comply with the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" applies only in the case of employees. A worker who was subjected to an unlawful detriment was not entitled to an uplift.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to employ volunteers

    Practical guidance on employing volunteers, including employment status.

  • Date:
    18 December 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Supreme Court confirms volunteer not covered by disability discrimination law

    The Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal decision that an unpaid volunteer with no contract was not protected by the (now repealed) Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and that the Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) does not cover voluntary activity. 

  • Date:
    3 August 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Court of Appeal rejects argument that self-employed contractors cannot be "workers"

    The Court of Appeal has held that a self-employed GP who provided hair restoration services for a private clinic was a "worker" for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996. 

  • Date:
    1 April 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Dinu Suntook, Cane Pickersgill and Poppy Fildes are all associates at Addleshaw Goddard. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Type:
    FAQs

    What is the status of workers engaged on casual or zero hours contracts?