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Worker status is the holy grail in the gig economy, including the fields of taxi rides, food delivery and courier services.
If an employee wins a discrimination claim, the employment tribunal will award compensation for injury to feelings. There are three bands: top band for the most serious cases (currently £26,300 – £44,000); middle band for serious cases not worthy of a top band award (£8,800 – £26,300) and bottom (£900 – £8,800) for less serious cases including one off incidents.
In unfair dismissal cases, both the compensatory and basic awards can be reduced by the tribunal, potentially to zero, based on the employee’s conduct before dismissal.
Employment law and HR can be an extremely complex area of the legal system. In this week’s edition of Silk 106.9‘s Legal Hour, Nicola Clarke the Head of our Employment department discussed several issues relating to employers and employees. You can catch up with the full Legal Hour session with Nicola and Silk 106.9 below.
PHI provides employees with pay during long term sickness or incapacity.
Indirect age discrimination is where a policy that is applied to all employees negatively affects people in a certain age group.
Proselytising is where someone preaches about religion with a view to converting other people to that religion. The Court of Appeal has recently examined unfair dismissal relating to proselytising and whether dismissal for proselytising can be fair.
The holiday season is upon us and the next instalment of the Flowers v East of England Ambulance Trust saga has arrived from the Court of Appeal.
An employer discriminates against a woman if they treat her unfavourably because she is taking maternity leave.
Are your job adverts accidentally putting off potential applicants when you recruit?