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An employee of BG Group has claimed constructive dismissal after resigning following a row over his uploading of his CV onto LinkedIn, the business social networking website. The human resources professional...
Question of self-employed status must reflect actual position and not just what contract terms say – Autoclenz v Belcher, Supreme Court
People supplying or receiving services often want to know whether the situation is an employed or self-employed basis, as this can affect whether there are any employment rights, how readily the relationship...
What do flexible working and retirement have in common?
No, that is not the opening line of a bad joke for lawyers!
Both the existing statutory process for an employee to request a flexible working pattern and the now defunct statutory right to request working...
Franchisee responsible for wrongful misuse of data by its employee but franchisor rights let down by poor contract wording – MMP v Antal, High Court
Antal and MMP entered into a franchise agreement for MMP to operate a recruitment agency as one of Antal’s franchisees. One of MMP’s employees had a relationship with one of the candidates whom she...
Psychics in the Police – Part III
In a further instalment to the story of Mr Power and his case against the Greater Manchester Police Authority (see part I and part II), Lord Justice Stanley Burnton has, in the Court of Appeal, refused...
Dismissal for offensive email sent from home computer was fair – Gosden v Lifeline, Employment Tribunal
Lifeline employed Gosden and supplied him to HM Prison Service (HMPS). Outside of working hours and from his home computer, Gosden sent a sexually and racially offensive email to the home computer of a...
Employer-friendly Tribunal Reforms
Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, today announced the Government's proposals for reforms of the Employment Tribunal system aimed at reducing the burden of employment...
BBC Three Counties Radio Interview
Earier this week, I was interviewed on the BBC Three Counties Radio's Morning: MK show about the impact of the Government's confirmation that the default retirement age of 65 will be scrapped from October...
Overview of the Equality Act 2010
INTRODUCTION
The past 40 years have seen the introduction of statutes and regulations addressing discrimination in the fields of sex and race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age....
Lonmar Global Risks Limited v West – Harmless misconduct?
HR Magazine recently published an article that I did on the case of Lonmar Global Risks Limited v West & others. The interesting point about the case was that two senior employees were found by the...