Employment Law Articles

No organisation can escape the expansion of employment law.

The following employment articles have been put together by The Incomes Data Services, a research organisation focused on employment-related areas of law.

The views expressed in the employment law articles should be taken as those of the author or the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of MILS.

Age Discrimination

• Age Discrimination and unfair dismissal
• Age Discrimination-manager chosen for redundancy because of age?
• Age Discriminatory - Pension changes
• Age Discrimination - Compulsory Retirements

Contracts of Employment

• Contract of employment - bullying and return to work
  
• Contract with agency worker not necessary
• Non-dealing covenant was enforceable
• Contract not illegal in the absence of misrepresentation

Employment

• Agency worker not an employee of end-user
• Continuity of employment and unfair dismissal

Disability Discrimination

• Disability Discrimination - evidence of disability
• Whether adjustment would remove disadvantage for disabled
• Disability Discrimination - evidence of disability
• Disability Discrimination - eat gives guidance
• Disability Discrimination - lowering competency standard

National Minimum Wage

• EAT offers guidance on worker status

Negligence

• Counselling service does not shield employer

Redundancy

• Redundancy - volunteers were dismissed

Trade Unions

• Union entitled to expel bnp member

Transfer of Undertakings

• Transfer of undertakings

TUPE

• Tupe Transfer - variation on employee’s contractual retirement age

 Unfair Dismissal

• Unfair dismissal - failure to offer alternative employment
  
• Unfair dismissal adoption
• Unfair dismissal - alcohol policy
• Unfair dismissal - immigration status
• Unfair dismissal - tribunals must consider DDPs
• Unfair dismissal
• Third party conduct
• Handling of grievance
• EAT gives guidance on future loss of earnings
• Unfair Dismissal - Royal Bank of Scotland
• Unfair Dismissal - expired misconduct

Racial Discrimination

• Racial banter no bar to harassment

Religious Discrimination

• Religious discrimination - Veil
• Failure to interview atheist teacher was discriminatory

 Wages

• Unlawful deductions claims must be quantified
• Unlawful deductions for contractual mileage allowance