Keeping it Confidential ‘Changes to the Employment Rights Act’

An amendment to the Employment Rights Act introduced on 29th July 2013 allows employers and employees to keep certain negotiations regarding termination of employment confidential. This means, subject to certain rules and exceptions any negotiations and offers cannot be used as evidence in subsequent unfair dismissal claims. Previously, such negotiations and offers could have been

Driver compensated for ‘golliwog’ comments aimed at colleague

A black driver has been awarded £27,000 compensation after he became upset at hearing a colleague being called racist nicknames. Roy Morgan worked for a fruit and veg wholesale company inGloucester. He was not subjected to direct racism himself but often heard his colleague, Brian Ennis, referred to by other workers as ‘golliwog Brian’ and

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