Employment disputes

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• Date:

  26 July 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment tribunal fees system is unlawful, decides Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has held that the requirement for claimants to pay a fee to bring an employment tribunal claim is unlawful and that the legislation that introduced employment tribunal fees must be quashed.

• Date:

  5 July 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Injury to feelings awards: Court of Appeal confirms 10% uplift

  The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the 10% uplift on general damages in civil claims applies to employment tribunal compensation for injury to feelings caused by discrimination.

• Date:

  1 June 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

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

• Date:

  11 May 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Court of Appeal overturns strike out of doctor's whistleblowing claim against Health Education England

  The Court of Appeal has held that the employment tribunal incorrectly struck out the appellant's claim against Health Education England (HEE). The Court remitted the claim to a fresh tribunal to decide, as a preliminary issue, if the appellant was a worker in relation to HEE under the whistleblowing provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

• Date:

  20 April 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Right to be accompanied: £2 award after employer turns down employee's chosen companion

  An employment tribunal has held that the employer breached the claimant's right to be accompanied when it refused to allow his chosen companions, trade union representatives, to accompany him at a disciplinary appeal hearing. However, it awarded compensation of £2 only, on the basis that the employer had understandable reasons for the refusal.

• 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:

  1 April 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

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

• 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.

• Date:

  1 March 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Pre-termination negotiations: Employer's improper conduct meant offer was not a protected conversation

  In Lenlyn UK Ltd v Kular EAT/0108/16, the EAT held that an employer's offer to an employee of a settlement agreement did not constitute a "protected conversation" because the employer had acted improperly in all the circumstances, and in doing so had also breached trust and confidence.

• Date:

  1 February 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

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