What is the Neurodiversity Index? 

10 June 2024

What even is the Neurodiversity Index Report (the Report) I hear you ask? It is a report published by The City & Guilds Foundation, who specialise in skills development.  The Report is now in its second year and was implemented to show how organisations manage and work with neurodiverse employees.   The Report found that […]

£79,000 award in sexual harassment claim

7 June 2024

In S Nunns v SBH Windermere Limited & Mr A Wilson an Employment Tribunal awarded the employee £79,119 (including interest) after it found he had been sexually harassed by the General Manager of the Windermere Manor Hotel.  The employee was the Hotel’s Head Chef. The law In prohibiting harassment related to a protected characteristic and […]

Newsreaders’ equal pay claim against the BBC 

5 June 2024

It has been reported that four female TV newsreaders cannot continue their claims for equal pay in an Employment Tribunal, because they had previously settled these claims with their employer, the BBC. Their other claims, including those for age and sex discrimination, harassment and victimisation, will, however, continue.  It is understood that the newsreaders may […]

Liability of individuals in discrimination claims

3 June 2024

Elizabeth McGlone, Partner at didlaw represented Ms Baldwin in her Employment Appeal Tribunal claims against Cleves School.  The judgment can be found here.  The appeal was multi-faceted and follows nearly a decade of litigation for the Claimant who issued her claims in 2015. The original claims pursued were for disability discrimination against the School and […]

long serving Sainsbury’s employee was fairly dismissed when he did not pay for bags to pack his shopping

31 May 2024

Under the Employment Rights Act 1996, to bring a claim for unfair dismissal, an employee must have two years’ service. Labour plans to change this if they get into power and to give the right from day one.  The burden of proof is on the employer to show that they had a fair reason to […]

Employment Status – coastal rescue and volunteers

29 May 2024

Employment status, the subject of so many employment tribunal claims, comes under the heading ‘jurisdiction’ as is must be determined whether the employment tribunals have scope to hear some claims.  Whether someone is a worker or an employee will also determine what claims they can bring.  This was the case in Groom v Maritime and […]

Disciplining workers for conduct that may be connected to a disability

27 May 2024

It’s an unfortunate reality that people with disabilities suffer a range of mistreatment in the workplace. This mistreatment will not always take the form of overt remarks regarding their disabilities, it can often appear more insidiously through unspoken disadvantages or non-facilitation of the particular needs that arise from their condition. The Equality Act 2010 (‘Equality […]

It’s hard to get a job over the age of 50 – ageism at work

24 May 2024

We are missing a trick when it comes to a skills gap and apparent labour shortage. We have the resources, we have the people, we are just blind to the fact that people over 50, able and willing to work, are simply ignored in recruitment processes.  There is a whole swathe of invisible and involuntarily […]

Guidance on preparing a List of Issues in the Employment Tribunal

15 May 2024

An early and sometimes key battleground in an employment tribunal claim is in the preparation of a “List of Issues”. For those not familiar with the term, this is a list of all the issues in a claim which the tribunal is asked to decide. There are usually issues of fact (i.e. whether the situation did happen […]