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May

2014

Employment

New challenge to employment tribunal fees

In February, we blogged on Unison’s unsuccessful challenge to the introduction of tribunal fees. At the time, the High Court stressed that in many respects the case had been brought too early as there was insufficient statistical evidence available at that time to judge the new fee regime. It has been reported that yesterday Unison was granted… Read more »

Posted by Julie Keir

On May 21, 2014

May

2014

Employment

Challenge to statutory cap on unfair dismissal compensation fails

The maximum unfair dismissal compensatory award is currently the lower of £76,574 or one year’s salary. The cap of one year’s salary was introduced on 29 July 2013. The High Court last week dismissed an application from Compromise Agreements Ltd for permission to judicially review the statutory cap of one year’s salary. The firm had… Read more »

Posted by Julie Keir

On May 21, 2014

May

2014

Employment

Zero-hours contracts – are their days numbered?

Last autumn I blogged about zero-hour contracts and considered whether they were as scary as they were being made out to be. The post can be found here and the answer at the time was, “probably not”. As a reminder, zero-hour contracts are normally like other contracts of employment except that they do not provide any number… Read more »

Posted by Julie Keir

On May 14, 2014

May

2014

Employment

Carer entitled to minimum wage for ‘sleep in’ nightshifts

The EAT has held that a carer who was required to work “sleep in” night shifts at her employer’s premises was undertaking “time work” in terms of the National Minimum Wage legislation and was therefore entitled to be paid for the duration of her stay. A distinction has to be drawn between cases where the… Read more »

Posted by Julie Keir

On May 13, 2014

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