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April marks a significant landmark for Thorneycroft Solicitors Managing Director Rachel Stow as it will be twenty years since she joined the firm as a newly qualified solicitor.
A well-known global banking firm has been hit with multiple allegations from a high earning female executive who claims she has experienced sexist and maternity discrimination from bosses and male colleagues.
A mother of a 10 year old boy is suing Watford General Hospital claiming medical negligence. The young boy, who is now aged 11, was born with existing medical conditions, including a cleft lip and palate and two holes in his heart. He has had 14 operations and has spent much of his life in and out of Hospital however he suffered a cardiac arrest last year after being given Heparin, which left him in a quadriplegic state.
Car enthusiast gets the boot
Well, what a fracas.
We’re not talking just about the incident that led to the non-renewal of Jeremy Clarkson’s BBC contract, but also about the public outcry the whole situation has generated. What exactly happened in that hotel, we don’t know. And until very recently we didn’t know what the consequences would be for the Top Gear presenter. But what we have known all along is that employers up and down the country face comparable conundrums to those in charge of Clarkson’s fate.
It may not strike you as momentous, but a change to the Acas Code could well change the way you handle workers’ requests to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings.
Metroline Travel v Stoute
What does and doesn’t amount to a disability is hotly debated, as equality law continues to develop. The Metroline case centered around whether a type of diabetes that was controlled by diet satisfied the legal definition of ‘disability’. Was it an impairment which had a substantial and long-term effect on the claimant’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities?
Being a movable feast, Easter keeps us on our toes. And that’s certainly going to be the case for some employers over the next few years as they’ll have to accommodate employees’ eggstra days off. Here’s why:
Williams v Leeds United Football Club
Mr Williams was employed by Leeds as technical director when he was given notice of redundancy. His contract would terminate at the end of his 12-month notice period (as the Club later agreed), or earlier if he was guilty of gross misconduct.
By May this year, we should have a fully-functioning Fit for Work (FFW) service which aims to give clarity on employees’ ability to do their jobs.
You might remember in a previous newsletter we advised you, following the recent decision in Bear Scotland, that when calculating holiday pay you must now take into account overtime payments. Well, the Employment Tribunal in the case of Lock v British Gas has now handed down its long-awaited decision as to whether or not commission payments should also be included in holiday pay. Perhaps not surprisingly, the answer is yes.