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Employment Appeal Tribunal
Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees
In November 2011, Business Secretary, Vince Cable, spoke of wide-ranging employment law. Part of this was the introduction of fees at Employment (ET) and Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). This was also discussed as part of a previous consultation, Resolving Workplace Disputes. The fee-charging regime is designed to minimise the cost of the ET and EAT [...]
Religious Discrimination – The European Court of Human Rights
All employers have a duty under the various Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), designed to protect the basic rights and freedoms of employees. For example, Article 2 gives protection to every person to their life, Article 8 provides for the right to privacy in his private, home and family life and [...]
Sickness and Reasonable Adjustments
Mr Olenloa went sick with an ‘adjustment disorder’ in September 2010 and started a grievance process through the Employment Tribunal (ET) system in October 2010. This ET claim was the same as a grievance that he had raised with North West London Hospitals, in that they had failed to make reasonable adjustments to cater for [...]
Sickness, Reasonable Adjustments and Continuing Employment
This follows nicely from the Olenloa v North West London Hospitals NHS Trust case of reasonable adjustments and introduces the topic of dismissal. Mr Conway was disabled, suffering from depression and anxiety. He commenced employment at Community Options Limited as a support worker on 24 September 2007. He was signed unfit for work on 15 [...]
The Right To Work In The UK – Okuoimose v City Facilities Management (UK) Ltd
Under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, the employer can incur large penalties for failing to check whether an employee, or potential employee, actually has the right to work in theUK. The above case, heard in the Employment Appeals Tribunal, will not ease the penalty and compliance issues that many organisations have to contend [...]
