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Jun
Should you be entitled to damages when no loss has been suffered? Sometimes an employee has clients who give their work to an employer only because a particular employee works there, and the employer will lose those clients' custom once the employee leaves. Sometimes that employee has post-termination restrictions that prevent them from still dealing with those loyal clients after leaving, but they continue to deal with them anyway. Strictly speaking, the employer has suffered no loss (because the clients would have gone...
May
Silent Witness is a TV show where key characters actively search for forensic evidence. But don’t take this approach in an Employment Tribunal! I was recently part way through a case where one of my witnesses thought it might be a good idea to find some extra evidence overnight to assist the Judge. He knew he wasn’t supposed to discuss the case with us or the other witnesses, but didn’t think that he also had to keep mum generally while under...
Apr
If you're a woman reading this...
Slavery exists...
Leaving the EU will be easier than going on strike...
Feb
At last - something that's NOT about Brexit: the Gender Pay Gap Regulations It's time to stop ignoring what private sector organisations with 250 or more staff must do after the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 come into force on 6th April 2017. Although the fact of a gender pay gap may not be rocket science, what's interesting is that the gender pay gap isn't a one-way gap. Apparently it falls to about 9% for full time employees;...
Nov
No change - it's Brexit and employment law again...
We're in a post-BREXIT employment law New World Order...
Mar
BREXIT - more about the labourers than the law? Like it or not, we have to think about what employment law changes might occur over the next 2 years if UK voters decide, on 23 June 2016, to “leave” rather than “remain”, when answering the question: "Should the UK remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?". However just saying: “The following laws don’t apply any more” isn’t a practical option. The reasons are that unpicking 40+ years of jointly developed...