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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 […]

What is the Fair Work Agency?

28 March 2025

The Fair Work Agency is a creation of the Labour Government. Labour proposes to create a new stateenforcement body for employment rights. For now the proposed name is the Fair Work Agency althoughthis is not yet official. The most recent amendments to the Employment Rights Bill indicate that it will provide as follows: These amendments […]

Future loss arising from discrimination

26 March 2025

In Gourlay v West Dunbartonshire Council, Mr Gourlay was dismissed for grossmisconduct. He claimed that he had developed a serious depressive illness as a resultof his discriminatory treatment by West Dunbartonshire Council. He brought claims for unfair dismissal, disability discrimination and victimisation. Hisdisabilities were MS, Type II diabetes along with severe depression. His claimssucceeded. The employment tribunal accepted […]

The dismissal of an Ofsted inspector for a single incident was unfair

24 March 2025

The Court of Appeal has found in Hewston v OFSTED that the dismissal of an OFSTED inspector for a single incident was unfair. Mr Hewston was an experienced OFSED inspector with a clean disciplinary record. During a school visit hetouched a pupil’s forehead to brush water off his face and shoulder because the child had […]

Don’t be an a***hole to a litigant in person

19 February 2025

I do wonder where my blog inspiration comes from at times and I honestly have no idea what gave rise to this one but it is an important subject and one which I think a lot of my fellow employment lawyers might benefit from.  There is nothing big or clever in trying to get one […]

Happy Valentine’s Day from didlaw with love

14 February 2025

My husband and I always agree that we are not going to buy into the commercialism of Valentine’s Day and we are definitely not going to do gifts. I do love a card and always spend time finding the cutest one and think about what I’m going to write. After almost thirty years I am […]

Neonatal care leave and pay – new laws with effect from 6 April 2025

7 February 2025

The Government plans to introduce new statutory neonatal care leave (SNCL) and statutory neonatal care pay (SNCP) with effect from 6 April 2025.  The current position is that there is no specific right to leave or pay for employees whose babies need neonatal care after birth. They must use their existing entitlement to maternity leave, […]