Employment disputes

New and updated

• Date:

  27 January 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer, Iain Naylor, Lucy Sorell and Rachael Wake are associates, and Jessica-Alice Curtis is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  1 December 2015

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Krishna Santra and Sandra Martins are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  18 November 2015

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Redundancy consultation: maximum protective awards for former City Link employees in Northern Ireland

  A Northern Ireland tribunal has awarded protective awards of 90 days' pay to former City Link employees over the company's failure to consult on their redundancies.

• Date:

  3 November 2015

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination arising from disability: £30,000 for employee dismissed for disability-related absences

  A public-sector worker with 34 years' service who was dismissed after exceeding her trigger point under the employer's absence management procedure by a few days has been awarded over £30,000 for discrimination arising from disability and unfair dismissal.

• Date:

  1 October 2015

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

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

• Type:

  FAQs

  What powers do employment tribunals have under the Equality Act 2010 to make recommendations to employers?

• Date:

  1 July 2015

  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:

  1 June 2015

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  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.

• Date:

  20 May 2015

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Tribunal claims: early conciliation certificate required even when conciliation is impossible

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a tribunal was right to reject a claim where the claimant had not contacted Acas under the early conciliation procedure. While the claimant's reluctance to initiate the procedure was understandable, given that the claim involved allegations of sexual harassment, the claimant did not fall within any of the statutory exemptions.

• Date:

  20 May 2015

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Tribunal claims: incorrect Acas early conciliation number on ET1 leads to claim rejection

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has refused to allow a claim to proceed where it was submitted shortly before the time limit ran out, but rejected because of an incorrect early conciliation number being entered on the ET1. The claim was resubmitted, but outside the time limit.