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From 1st April 2018, the national minimum wage for workers who are aged 25 or over will rise to £7.83 per hour.
Did you know, as a result of the way in which the Easter bank holidays fall in 2018 and 2019, some employers could breach their employees’ annual leave rights without even realising?
The deadline for private and volunteer sector companies with 250 or more employees have until 4th April 2018 to publish their first gender pay gap reports.
Workers who are aged18 and over are entitled to 3 types of break - rest breaks at work, daily rest and weekly rest.
A recent case that was heard at an Employment Law Tribunal awarded a former restaurant worker nearly £9,000 to compensate for the discrimination she faced at work and the lack of professionalism shown by management when she raised a grievance.
Our team of Solicitors consists of dedicated specialists and lawyers who deal with Employment law, Family law, Wills and Probate, Residential Conveyancing, Commercial law and Dispute Resolution. Each team has vast experience collectively and have wide, in-depth knowledge of all possible matters and disputes.
Our team of Solicitors consists of dedicated specialists and lawyers who deal with Employment law, Family law, Wills and Probate, Residential Conveyancing, Commercial law and Dispute Resolution. Each team has vast experience collectively and have wide, in-depth knowledge of all possible matters and disputes.
Our team of Solicitors consists of dedicated specialists and lawyers who deal with Employment law, Family law, Wills and Probate, Residential Conveyancing, Commercial law and Dispute Resolution. Each team has vast experience collectively and have wide, in-depth knowledge of all possible matters and disputes.
The amount of paternity pay new fathers are eligible to claim could change forever depending on the result of an Employment Appeal Tribunal. The case is being bought by a father who took paternity leave after his wife was advised to return to work after being diagnosed with postnatal depression after the birth of their daughter.
Lawson-West Solicitors successfully established that a ‘freelance personal trainer’ for a UK wide gym franchise, had been an ‘employee’ in a claim under the Equality Act 2010.
The claim for disability discrimination arose from the Respondent’s termination of our Clients contract on the grounds of absence from work, which our Client says was caused by a medical condition amounting to a disability.
A Freedom of Information request to local authorities revealed child employment permit requests have dropped 1/5th in five years. 23,071 were issued in 2016 compared to 29,498 in 2010.
Adding to the Lawson-West catalogue of seminars and events, we ran a mock employment tribunal on November 9th at our Leicester office.
The meeting room area was set up to replicate a court room setting and three barristers from London firm The 36 Group were in attendance too, with one acting as a Judge.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed that Uber’s appeal against the decision to class its drivers as workers rather than self employed has failed.
Nearly three months after employment tribunal fees were abolished, the government has today revealed the scheme to refund those who were incorrectly charged.
The recent furore regarding the gender pay gap at the BBC has highlighted that, even in the biggest and most reputable organisations, there is still a way to go. It was notable that the best paid male BBC star earned 5 times what the best paid female star earned and that two thirds of the on-air high earners were men.
The newspapers have been filled with stories about Ryanair’s cancellation of over 2,000 flights affecting over 400,000 travellers. And, quite rightly, the emphasis of these stories is on the poor people who have had their flights cancelled or those who are stranded in their holiday destinations and are struggling to arrange flights home.
After proving a case of maternity discrimination, Lawson-West obtained an award of £10,000 for the Claimant’s injury to feelings award, which then increased by more than 50% to £15,332.19 because of uplifts and interest.
This week is migraine awareness week. Many employers do not understand the awful effects of migraines and they could do more to support staff with the condition.
Employers are being urged to offer support to workers who give birth to premature or ill babies.
The conciliation service Acas has urged employers to be flexible in giving time off to parents so they can attend hospital appointments.
A recent report carried out by XpertHR concluded that employee absence has increased to 6.6 days per person, per year meaning that employers are losing out on a rate of 2.9% productivity due to staff not being at work.
Roughly speaking, this means employers with 1,000 or more staff loose on average 8.8 days per employee.
As we have previously reported, supermarket chain Asda was taken to an employment tribunal last year due to a high volume of pay discrepancies between male and female staff.
The abolishment of Tribunal Fees has paved the way for the possibility of people getting a second chance to pursue their claims if being unable to fund the fees prevented it previously being heard.
At Lawson-West, we are able to offer clients a number of funding options. One of the most accessed, especially for Employment law matters, is ‘no win no fee’. But what is it and what does it mean?
In a landmark decision today, it has been decided by the Supreme Court that the Government’s decision back in 2013 to charge Employment Tribunal fees was unlawful and will be quashed.
Recently, the University of Exeter carried out a study that focussed on the attitudes of almost 300 workers regarding a fictional female employee who was expecting a baby and her intentions towards the duration of her maternity leave and return to work.
The support offered by the employer when she first received the diagnosis was as you would expect – she was shown sympathy, concern and arrangements were made to fit treatments and appointments in around her work.
The government’s department for Business, Innovation & Skills has confirmed that it will look at zero hours contracts, due to concern about their misuse by some employers...
It has been reported recently that an Air New Zealand flight attendant who had been dismissed has been forced to hand over her bank records and Facebook pages to bosses in a row over sick leave...
A recent survey by law firm Slater & Gordon has found that over a quarter of mothers in the UK feel discriminated against at work. Of 1,975 women surveyed...
An employment tribunal is considering the case of a female lawyer who was made redundant from her £100,000-a-year job when she asked to extend her six-month maternity leave due to suffering complications giving birth...
New research suggests that nearly two thirds of women have been the victim of inappropriate behaviour from a male work colleague, with 21% of those classing the behaviour as persistent...
A Pagan witch has won a religious discrimination case and has been awarded more than £15,000 in what is believed to be the first successful claim of its kind in Britain...
Following comments from Chancellor George Osborne that the country can ‘now afford’ to raise the National Minimum Wage, the government is cracking down on employers who break the law by failing to pay staff the legal minimum, currently £6.31 per hour for workers over 21...
Employees who are working illegally, e.g. without a necessary work permit or without paying tax, cannot bring unfair dismissal claims if their employment is terminated. However, a recent case shows that the position is different in relation to discrimination claims...
Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has said that the next Labour Government will scrap the Government’s employment tribunal system and replace it with a fairer one that doesn’t deter employees who have been treated unfairly at work from making a claim...
An employment tribunal has ruled that a deputy head teacher who was sacked after giving former pupils a tour of her school building was unfairly dismissed...
Business Secretary Vince Cable has today announced plans to ban exclusivity clauses which prevent people on zero hours’ contracts from working for more than one employer...
A survey just published claims that a third of people struggle to cope at work because of depression, stress or burn out...
Trade unions and employment law experts together are calling for a review of tribunal fees as new figures show a 70% drop in the number of cases taken to employment tribunal since they were introduced last year...
A ruling at the Employment Appeal Tribunal yesterday means that some five million workers could get extra holiday pay in future...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced that all Civil Service employees will be entitled to full parental pay from April 2015, when they choose to share parental leave. Currently, only mothers are entitled to full pay in this situation...
The trade union Unison has again been unsuccessful in its bid to overturn employment tribunal fees, but has been granted permission to appeal. The union’s first application to overturn employment tribunal fees was also rejected in February.
The European Court of Justice, the highest court of the EU, has ruled that obesity can constitute a disability – in some circumstances, where it could hinder ‘full and effective participation’ at work.
A report launched by the Confederation of British Industry at their recent conference has called on the government to improve living standards by increasing the national insurance threshold and also by extending free childcare to working parents of one and two year olds...
In a recent announcement, the Government is increasing the amount of compensation payable for employment law claims...
An employment tribunal has ruled that a heart specialist was unfairly dismissed after he raised concerns about a hospital’s failings which led to a patient’s death, including staffing shortages, workplace bullying and ‘appalling’ equipment...
A study by ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) has found that agency workers are unaware of their employment rights, or and afraid of asserting them...
