UKIP have lost an employment tribunal claim for sex discrimination following a default judgment, but aware that these can be set aside, they are reported to have responded now. Employers facing a similar scenario are advised to seek urgent assistance if they have a default judgment against them. Ideally, you should always be looking to […]
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Post created on: December 23rd, 2010
Compensation in some employment tribunal claims will increase by 4.6% from February 2011, bringing the compensatory award for an unfair dismissal to a potential maximum of £68,400. With a basic award of 30 week’s pay at an increased £400 limit, an unfair dismissal could cost an employer £80,400. The minimum compensation will be increased to […]
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Post created on: December 16th, 2010
Serial litigants – like John Berry, who has brought numerous claims against employers that advertise vacancies with terms such as “school leavers” or “recent graduates” – risk costs being awarded against them in the future. In a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment involving Mr Berry, Underhill P warned that claimants who bring age discrimination claims […]
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Post created on: November 14th, 2010
A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research and campaign group Internocracy suggests employers are. The very legitimate arguments put forward in the report are that interns are ‘workers’ under the National Minimum Wage Act, and therefore due at least the national minimum wage (and the workers would probably be due holiday pay […]
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Post created on: August 2nd, 2010
The Tribunals Service, an Executive Agency of the Ministry of Justice, published its first annual statistics recently; this included the latest employment tribunal statistics, showing a rise in claims for most jurisdictions. In real terms (claims figures can be distorted by multiple claims, particularly when these are in the thousands. The single cases measure is more […]
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Post created on: July 24th, 2010
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