employment law

Waitresses Can Be Fired For Gaining Weight: The Borgata Babes Case

August 25, 2013

Imagine this. Your employer requires you to regularly “weigh-in” to record your how much you weigh compared to your weight at the time you were hired. At one such weigh-in your employer discovers that you gained a few pounds. Those few pounds amount to more than 7% of your weight at the time you were […]

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John Lewis’s staff – never knowingly underpaid: the difficulties of holiday pay

August 23, 2013

It is widely reported in the press that the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership has admitted that it has miscalculated holiday pay for at least seven years. As a result the company is to pay out £40m to compensate 69,000 workers next month. The error relates to how holiday pay was calculated. The company had been […]

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Sacked carer brings Employment Tribunal claim for unfair dismissal

August 20, 2013

A sacked care manager has issued a claim in the Employment Tribunal after she was dismissed from her job last year. Mrs Donna Savigar worked for a period of five years as a care manager for Stoke-on-Trent council until she was dismissed in 2012. The reason for her dismissal is not clear but she contends […]

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Employment Tribunal cases in the news last week

August 12, 2013

In this post we’re going to look at a number of Employment Tribunal cases that have made the headlines in the last week, including: Black worker awarded £27,000 after hearing colleague referred to as golliwog (The Telegraph) A black worker who worked at a fruit and vegetable wholesaler in Gloucester has won his Employment Tribunal […]

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When does a dismissal become automatically unfair?

July 30, 2013

To bring an unfair dismissal claim against their former employer, an individual must: actually be an employee (as opposed to “worker”); have been dismissed (as defined by s.95 of the Employment Rights Act 1996); if hired before 6 April 2012 have 1 year’s continuous service; if hired on or after 6 April 2012 have 2 […]

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Female banker makes “bunga bunga” Employment Tribunal claim

July 17, 2013

A female banker has made an Employment Tribunal claim after claiming that she was subjected to discrimination at the firm that she worked for. Ms Isabel Sitz claims that she was subjected to discrimination in the workplace and that she was forced out of her job last year by the racist and sexist culture at […]

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Cambridge businessman wins £3.4 million payout from Employment Tribunal claim

July 10, 2013

A Cambridge-based businessman has been awarded £3.4 million by the Employment Tribunal after it was found that he had been dismissed because he had blown the whistle on illicit practices. Medical Marketing International (“MMI”) was set up in 1988 by Margaret Best. Mr David Best (Mrs Best’s husband), 63, was chairman and managing director of Medical […]

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£25m pay-offs to BBC staff described as “fundamental failure” by BBC Trust

July 10, 2013

The BBC Trust has heavily criticized the BBC after it was revealed in a report that the organisation had been paying more than it was contractually obliged to former staff. The criticism came after a National Audit Office report was released last week which uncovered “huge payments” to former BBC staff who had been made […]

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University of Kent faces age discrimination claim from lecturer

July 7, 2013

A 60-year-old lecturer has launched an Employment Tribunal claim against the University of Kent after he claims he was discriminated against. Mr Stephen Games, 60, has launched a £750,000 claim for discrimination against his employer, the University of Kent, after he claimed that he was subjected to age discrimination by not being awarded a full-time […]

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Does Your Employer Provide Short Term Disability?

June 23, 2013

Short term disability coverage can save your financial future in some cases. The idea behind this is to make sure that employees who suffer some sort of an injury or illness that puts them out of work for a while can survive without their paychecks. Oftentimes, this allows them to keep their job and to […]

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