Employment disputes

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• Industrial tribunal award limits increase in Northern Ireland

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Limits applying to various industrial tribunal awards and other amounts payable under employment legislation increase.

• Award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation - Northern Ireland

  Type:

  Quick reference

  A table summarising the award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation in Northern Ireland.

• Is there a limit on the compensation that can be awarded in a discrimination claim?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Unfair dismissal additional award

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect an increase in the cap on a week's pay, with effect from 6 April 2019.

• How to use a settlement agreement to resolve an employment issue

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to take account of changes to the taxation of payments in lieu of notice, effective from 6 April 2018.

• Are payments made under a settlement agreement taxable?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Working time: No compensation for injury to feelings for rest break failures

  Date:

  21 March 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Santos Gomes v Higher Level Care Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that compensation for injury to feelings is not available in a claim under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) for a failure to provide 20-minute rest breaks..

• Discrimination: Instigating disciplinary procedure was start of continuing act

  Date:

  21 February 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Hale v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the decision to instigate the disciplinary procedure was not a one-off act, but the start of a state of affairs that would continue until the conclusion of the disciplinary process.

• Injury to feelings compensation can be awarded for "working time detriment"

  Date:

  21 February 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service v Mansell and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that workers can be awarded compensation for injury to feelings in working time detriment claims.

• Employment tribunal award limits increase

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Limits applying to various tribunal awards and other amounts payable under employment legislation increase.