In Stanley v The Village Bakery (Wrexham) Ltd ET/1602387/2023 a blind employee won his discrimination case against a Welsh bakery when an employment tribunal found that the bakery didn’t give him time to familiarise himself with his surroundings or offer him a ‘buddy’ while he adjusted to his new workplace. Pro Employment LawFormed in 2017,… >>
In Clifford v IBM United Kingdom Ltd [2024] EAT 90 the EAT held that: future claims can be waived in a settlement agreement so long as appropriately clear language is used; this is the case irrespective of whether it is a ‘clean break’ end of employment situation or the parties remain in a continuing employment… >>
In Bugden v Royal Mail Group Ltd [2024] EAT 80 the claimant, who had been dismissed as a result of periods of ill-health absence over a number of years, contended that the employment tribunal should itself have raised the possibility of redeployment both as a potential reasonable adjustment under EqA 2010, s 20 and in… >>
The Code of Practice (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Order 2024 is made to bring into effect the Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement (the Code) on 18 July 2024. The Code was laid in draft before both Houses of Parliament on 19 February 2024 and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons on… >>
In Lawes v Fleet Maritime Services (Bermuda) Ltd [2024] EAT 77 the EAT upheld an Employment Judge’s decision to stay, effectively, a decision as to the territorial reach of the Extension of Jurisdiction Order 1994. The claimant had reserved the right to pursue a contractual claim before the courts for amounts over and above the… >>
A joint letter from the two Presidents of Employment Tribunals attaching an important message from Mark Lewis, Employment Tribunals Service Manager of HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has been issued: providing an urgent notification that from 30 May 2024 professional representatives seeking to present an employment tribunal claim online in Scotland, Leeds, Midlands East,… >>
In Baldwin v (1) Cleves School, (2) Hodges, (3) Miller [2024] EAT 66 the employment tribunal had found the respondent employer liable for acts carried out by the two individual respondents. However, it dismissed separate claims against the individual respondents brought under section 110 of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010), on the basis that… >>
In William v Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust [2024] EAT 58 the EAT held that its earlier decision in Malik v Centros Securities (UKEAT/0100/17/RN) (that in a public interest detriment claim under section 47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 it is not permissible to import the knowledge and motivation of another to the decision… >>
In Powell v University of Portsmouth [2024] EAT 56 the respondent did not allow the claimant, a Principal Lecturer, to return to work while he could not undertake face-to-face classroom teaching due to suffering unpredictable blackouts. The employment tribunal dismissed the claims of disability discrimination and constructive dismissal and the EAT upheld those findings, in… >>