Employment disputes

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination: Instigating disciplinary procedure was start of continuing act

  In Hale v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the decision to instigate the disciplinary procedure was not a one-off act, but the start of a state of affairs that would continue until the conclusion of the disciplinary process.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Injury to feelings compensation can be awarded for "working time detriment"

  In South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service v Mansell and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that workers can be awarded compensation for injury to feelings in working time detriment claims.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: £110,165 award for absence dismissal

  In Carrabyne v Department for Work and Pensions, the employment tribunal awarded £110,165 to a disabled claimant who was dismissed while on a final written attendance warning following an absence unrelated to her disabilities.

• Date:

  12 January 2018

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Workplace mediation - what is it and why use it?

  We discuss mediation in the workplace and the benefits it can offer your organisation.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment tribunals: Tribunal fee system unlawful under both UK and EU law

  In R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor [2017] IRLR 911 SC, the Supreme Court held that the requirement for claimants to pay a fee to bring an employment tribunal claim is unlawful and that the legislation that introduced the fees must be quashed.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Supreme Court: employment tribunal has jurisdiction to hear discrimination claim against GMC

  The Supreme Court has considered whether or not an employment tribunal has jurisdiction to hear a complaint by a doctor against the General Medical Council for discrimination.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Police officers can bring discrimination claims over misconduct panel decisions

  The Supreme Court has held that EU law requires police officers to be able to bring discrimination claims in employment tribunals in respect of dismissals that are the result of police misconduct panel proceedings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  State immunity cannot prevent claims for EU employment law breaches

  The Supreme Court has held that the State Immunity Act 1978 cannot prevent embassy staff from enforcing workplace rights derived from EU employment laws.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Acas early conciliation policy

  Updated to flag up the impact of the abolition of employment tribunal fees on this policy.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Example claim to employment tribunal

  An example claim to an employment tribunal in the format that an employee's complaint might take.