In the employment tribunals: September 2011

XpertHR provides summaries of recent employment tribunal rulings.

Redundancy after announcing pregnancy two weeks into new job not discriminatory
Intern paid "expenses only" entitled to be paid national minimum wage
Employer bound by six-month notice period after employee signed variation to contract
Age discrimination against teenager dismissed at 18 to avoid national minimum wage increase
Teacher unfairly dismissed after accessing dating website during lesson
Age discrimination: local authority employee's redundancy timed to avoid pension costs
Employee fairly dismissed for single swear word directed at manager
Age discrimination: hard-to-manage contract worker not let go because of his youth
Employee who commented on Facebook that she worked "in a nursery" was unfairly dismissed