Contracts of employment

New and updated

• Date:

  24 August 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  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:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

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

• Date:

  3 April 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  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:

  Law reports

  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:

  Law reports

  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.

• Date:

  2 February 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  Single act of negligent omission amounted to gross misconduct

  The Court of Appeal has held that an employee's failure to take action to remedy a situation was a serious dereliction of his duty that amounted to gross misconduct.

• Type:

  FAQs

  When calculating their gender pay gap, how should employers treat staff on zero hours contracts?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What are the tax implications if someone is employed under an employee-shareholder agreement?

• Date:

  1 November 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  Libel: Email stating employee dismissed for gross misconduct not libellous

  In Theedom v Nourish Trading Ltd (t/a CSP Recruitment) and another [2016] IRLR 866 HC, the High Court dismissed an employee's libel claim in respect of emails sent by his employer about his misconduct.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Fixed-term workers

  Updated to include information on López v Servicio Madrileño de Salud (Comunidad de Madrid), an ECJ decision relating to justification for successive renewals of a fixed-term contract.