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Griffiths v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The duty to make reasonable adjustments engages once an employer knows (or should reasonably be expected to know) that an employee is disabled. But as this case has shown, there are limits on what an employer will be expected to do.
Does your business rely to some extent on casual labour? If so, you may well be using zero hours contracts. They can be really useful, flexible ways of covering things like staff illness, seasonal work, projects and ‘on-call’ duties.
Shannon v Rampersad (T/A Clifton House Residential Home)
Is a worker working when they’re on-call but not… working?
MBNA v Jones
Two employees became involved in some sort of kneeing, face-licking, punchy, text message-threatening exchange that began at their employer’s 20th anniversary bash at the races. What started as fun or banter, as onlookers saw it, escalated and led to one of the men losing his job.
Sadly it’s that time of year when many people decide enough is enough. The ‘New year, New You’ ethos makes some couples take stock of their situations and decide that they do not want to be in the same place mentally, physically or financially, this time next year.
The Daily Telegraph recently published an article based an open letter it received, which was signed by 400 dentists, detailing how they felt that standards of NHS dental care in England was more like a “Third World” service.