Government announces employment law changes to boost economy

The government has unveiled a series of employment law reforms aimed at boosting the economy and reducing costs for businesses. The measures include changes to the Working Time Regulations 1998, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE), and non-compete clauses. The measures are set out in the policy paper ‘Smarter Regulation to Grow

TUI discriminated against employee during redundancy process

By Business Employment

The law on redundancy can seem complex and demanding to an employer. When making staff redundant, employers need to ensure that they follow a fair process that recognizes an employee’s rights while also seeking to achieve the organization’s goals in making the redundancy in the first place (e.g. saving cost). Throughout the redundancy process, the employer

Worker accused of trying to ruin company wins dismissal case

Business Employment

An employee at Lean Education and Development (LED) training firm won £11,885.62 for her unfair dismissal claim after she was accused of making deliberate mistakes to financially ruin her employer. Tracie Shearwood worked for LED for several years and after numerous promotions she held the role of head of compliance. In April 2018, her managing

Indirect Sex Discrimination: The Employment Tribunal awarded £60k to a part-time Morrison’s worker who was ‘gas-lighted’ into full-time hours.

Business Employment

Donna Patterson worked as a buyer in the Morrisons’ supermarket online business in Bradford. Whilst on maternity leave, her role was changed to fulfil the responsibilities of a full-time job, and upon her return, she was pressured to work longer hours, beyond what was stipulated in her contract. Ms Patterson was told she could do

Positive Discrimination

By Business Employment

The employment tribunal decision in Furlong v The Chief Constable of Cheshire Police  reminds employers that the ‘tie-breaker’ exemption should not be used as a blanket policy to favour underrepresented groups with shared protected characteristics in a recruitment selection process. Doing so would amount to unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. In this case, a well-intentioned police

Shareholder Agreements – why are they so important?

By Company Commercial

Often when a team of people decide to do business together they do so with people known to them whether it be family members, colleagues or friends. It is common to feel that formalising the business relationship legally is unnecessary as parties often find it difficult to imagine that these seemingly positive relationships could deteriorate

#Ask Machins Constructive Dismissal

Business Employment

Constructive dismissal is where an employer has committed a serious breach of contract that the employee’s only option is to resign in response to the employer’s conduct.  In order to bring a successful claim, the employee will need to show that: Their employer was in repudiatory breach of their employment contract; They resigned in response

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