Month: April 2025

Is my employer obliged to give me a reference?

11 April 2025

Your employer is not legally obliged to give you a reference unless it has agreed to do so under the terms of a COT3 or a settlement agreement or unless it is required to do so which applies to some regulated sectors (teachers, FCA regulated managers). It is open to an employer to decline to […]

What does all reasonable steps mean for employers protecting staff from harassment?

9 April 2025

This question has come to the fore in the light of the Employment Rights Bill which is going through Parliament at the current time. Measures to protect employees from harassment must comprise all reasonable steps but there is considerable uncertainty about what this actually means. In relation to the Bill guidance is awaited. In Campbell […]

Increases to Vento bands for injury to feelings awards from 6 April 2025

7 April 2025

Damages for discrimination – new Vento bands with effect from 6 April 2025 Most people will know that damages for discrimination – injury to feelings awards –  are decided by Employment Tribunals by reference to the Vento guidelines.  With effect from 6 April 2025 the Vento guidelines (or bands) have been revised upwards to reflect […]

The reality of employment tribunal litigation

4 April 2025

If I had a tenner for every time someone calls didlaw and says they want to take their employer to Employment Tribunal there would be a big stash of brown notes in the corner of my office. It seems like a good idea, when you are upset and angry about how you have been treated […]

Anonymity orders for disability discrimination claims

2 April 2025

An Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that it was entirely appropriate for a claimant in a disability discrimination claim to be given an anonymity order because he did not want the fact of his disability to be made public. The claimant who had Aspergers had concealed his disability throughout most of his career and had […]