An employee who is dismissed for making a public interest disclosure – whistleblowing – can claim unfair dismissal even without the two years’ continuous service that is normally required. What is more, there is no cap placed on the amount of compensation that can be...
A redundancy is a dismissal as a result of a workplace closing down or the employer needing fewer employees to do work of a particular kind. In Berkeley Catering Ltd v Jackson the question was whether the reason that an employer needed fewer employees made a...
Employers and employees must follow the ACAS Code of Practice in relation to disciplinaries and dismissals. If either party fails to follow the Code, the tribunal can increase or decrease tribunal compensation by up to 25%. In Wardle v Credit Agricole Corporate and...
All employers will be making plans to deal with the escalating and ongoing threat caused by the Coronavirus (Covid-19). As a result, Wollens are again making available a free homeworking policy template to protect the huge numbers of businesses and their employees who...
The Government has announced today that the furlough scheme will be extended by a further month to the end of April. Importantly for businesses, the Government will continue to pay 80% of wages (it was widely anticipated before the announcement that the employer’s...
By Jon Dunkley, Partner, data protection and employment specialist with Wollens Solicitors. The ‘Big Brother’ surveillance scenario envisaged by George Orwell has long since become reality. The ability to watch citizens outlined in the futuristic novel Nineteen...
