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Sarah Fitzpatrick looks at the lessons from recent case law on applying for a costs order ‘The EAT held that if a tribunal chooses not to have regard to means, it should have a reason for doing so and say what the reason is.’ A number of recent cases have highlighted the steps that parties …
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The EAT has recently looked at whether a selection pool of one is a fair way of making employees redundant, report Dan Aherne and Hannah Shribman ‘One of the key elements of a fair redundancy process will be the identification of appropriate selection pools.’ This article focuses on the construction of selection pools in light …
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Stephen Brown, Sarah Gadd and Emma Perkins weigh up the challenges and benefits for employers of implementing a single set of anti-discrimination standards across their international operations ‘A global business maintaining a higher standard across all its operations will attract better publicity, improving customer relations and aiding employee recruitment and retention.’ Employers with multi-jurisdictional operations …
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A recent decision may provide some encouragement to employers seeking to resist compliance with subject access requests that they believe have been made for the purposes of actual or contemplated litigation, writes Charles Wynn-Evans ‘The person making a SAR is not obliged to (nor can the recipient of the request require them to) state why …
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Jonathan Exten-Wright examines the current state of play with the government’s wide-ranging changes to employment law, including its controversial proposals for compensated no-fault dismissals ‘An individual who started employment with a new employer on or after 6 April 2012 must now have two years’ continuous service to be eligible to bring a complaint of unfair …
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Katharine McPherson reviews the decision in Woodcock v Cumbria PCT and considers what role cost may play in justifying treatment that would otherwise amount to discrimination ‘In accordance with previous case law, the court agreed that an employer cannot justify discrimination simply because not discriminating would involve increased costs.’ For some time now, case law …
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Dan Aherne and Libby Payne contemplate the courts’ and the government’s attempts to address difficulties with the law on consulting employees about collective redundancies ‘In this article, we consider how four recent decisions have sought to address ambiguities in the existing collective consultation legislation and the potential for reform following the call for evidence.’ In …
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The EAT has tightened up its approach to the duty to make reasonable adjustments, write Nick Thorpe and Gemma Rusling ‘The duty to make reasonable adjustments requires an employer to take reasonable steps to avoid a disabled person being put at a substantial disadvantage in the workplace when compared to a person who is not …
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A recent EAT case has highlighted the difficulties involved in awarding damages for aggravating conduct separately from compensation for injury to feelings, explains Sarah Gregory ‘The EAT observed that aggravated damages are an aspect of injury to feelings and reiterated that their purpose is essentially compensatory, not punitive.’In a recent case, the Employment Appeal Tribunal …
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Jemima Coleman and Katie Russell weigh up the steps companies can take to improve female representation at board level without committing unlawful positive discrimination ‘There is no obligation on an employer to take positive action measures. However, if it does, its actions must be proportionate.’ Gender diversity at board level is an important issue politically, …
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