Employment law cases

All items: Employment status

  • EAT considers employment status of construction worker on "umbrella" contract

    Date:
    1 February 2018

    In Blakely v On-Site Recruitment Solutions Ltd and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) allowed the appeal against the finding that the claimant was neither a worker nor an employer because the tribunal's reasoning was fundamentally flawed.

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 May 2017

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

  • Gig economy: Excel cycle courier was worker, decides tribunal

    Date:
    24 March 2017

    An employment tribunal has held that an Excel cycle courier was a worker and that his contract with the courier company mislabelled him as self-employed.

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 February 2017

    Chris Cook is a partner and Keely Rushmore is a senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.

  • CitySprint courier is a worker, concludes employment tribunal

    Date:
    10 January 2017

    In a second high-profile decision on employment status in the gig economy, this employment tribunal held that a CitySprint courier is a worker rather than self-employed.

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 July 2016

    David Malamatenios is partner at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

  • Fair dismissal of Ministry of Defence worker who appeared as a medium while on sick leave

    Date:
    16 September 2015

    An employment tribunal has rejected the unfair dismissal claim of an employee who was caught making a public appearance as a medium while on sick leave.

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 July 2015

    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.

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 June 2015

    John Bracken and Nancy Goldman-Edwards are trainee solicitors and Chris McAvoy, Lucy Sorell and Rachael Wake are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 March 2015

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

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Employment law cases: HR and legal information and guidance relating to employment status.