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Guardian News v Rozanov: the open justice principle in the EAT

8 April 2022

In a case that has been heralded as a victory for open justice, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has found in favour of the Guardian in their application to be provided with access to documents from an Employment Tribunal case. The EAT overruled the lower tribunal’s ruling that the costs of transparency would be too burdensome. […]

No paid adoption leave for new self-employed adoptive parents

6 April 2022

An e-petition calling for more support and paid adoption leave to be given to new adoptive parents was debated in the House of Commons on 21 March 2022. The title of the petition was ‘Make self-employed people eligible for Statutory Adoption Pay’, and it called for a self-employed adoptive parents to be given an allowance […]

Commercially Sensitive Information: Frewer v Google

4 April 2022

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) recently held that the Employment Tribunal (ET) were wrong to grant an order for anonymisation over Google’s concerns about commercially sensitive information. Having worked at Google for 12 years, the Claimant was dismissed for alleged sexual harassment. He subsequently brought a claim in the ET for automatically unfair dismissal, asserting […]

UK companies to offer jobs for refugees from Ukraine

1 April 2022

A consortium of UK firms, including M&S, Asos and Lush have launched a joint initiative to provide jobs for refugees from Ukraine when they arrive in the UK. The project is led by entrepreneur Emma Sinclair who hopes ‘tens of thousands’ of refugees will be able to benefit. The idea is to meet a moral […]

Regulatory rule changes to counter doctor sexual harassment – but is it enough?

30 March 2022

An update to the General Medical Council’s (GMC) guidelines (aka the “doctors’ bible”) has been proposed to place more emphasis on professional behaviours, such as challenging conduct that could be considered doctor sexual harassment, discrimination, or bullying. The change follows a series of public embarrassments for NHS surgeons (which we wrote about in February). More […]

Victimisation claim and detriment – the correct test

28 March 2022

Did the Tribunal apply the correct test when deciding if the Claimant had suffered a detriment when pursuing a victimisation claim? No, said the EAT in the case of Warburton v The Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police. This was an appeal against the decision of an Employment Tribunal which decided that the Claimant’s victimisation claim […]

Employee sacked for not working on Jewish religious holiday successful in discrimination claim

25 March 2022

A Jewish employee dismissed after refusing to attend work on the Jewish religious holiday, Passover, was successful in his claim for indirect discrimination in the workplace, being awarded around £26,500 in compensation. Facts of the case Mr Bialick worked as a legal executive for Manchester-based law firm NNE Law Limited. Tensions in the employment relationship […]

Employers should treat symptoms of long COVID in adults as a disability

23 March 2022

In the absence of clear legislative measures to protect people suffering with long Covid, the head of employment policy at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC’) has advised that the “best approach” for employers to take is for symptoms of long covid in adults to be treated as if they had a disability under […]

Payment in lieu of notice after resignation – dismissal or not?

21 March 2022

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (‘EAT’) held that an employee had not been dismissed for the purposes of section 95 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (‘ERA’) where the employer had exercised a contractual right to make payment in lieu of notice (‘PILON’) after the employee’s resignation. Background Facts Mr Fentem had begun employment with Outform […]