In Mrs M Massengo v CPL Aromas Ltd, CPL Aromas is a world leading fragrance house with headquarters in the UK. It is independent and family owned and creates fragrances for use in fine fragrance, personal care and household products. It is a very competitive market. With any fragrance house its only real intellectual property is its formulas for its fragrances and its costings of those formulas and fragrances.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 27 September 2022
In the case of Miss G Raja v Starling Bank Limited an employment tribunal upheld a former Starling executive’s claim that she was unfairly treated by the challenger bank because of a medical issue related to asthma.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 26 September 2022
In the case of Mr. Mark Thornley v North West Leicestershire District Council Mark Thornley, allegedly climbed onto a 'rave plate' of a lorry to clean the reversing camera on the back of the lorry.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 24 September 2022
In the case of Mr M Murphy v The Malt Shovel at Barston an employment tribunal in Birmingham was told that Mr Murphy had worked at the pub for 21 years, joining as a junior chef and becoming the head chef in 2006. In 2018, the pub was bought by new owners Eric and Heidi Cahill, who initially only visited the business two or three times a month.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 23 September 2022
In Ms N K Dhillon v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Narinderjeet Kaur Dhillon has attended several employment tribunal hearings since 2019, claiming she was unfairly dismissed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and the victim of racial and disability discrimination.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 21 September 2022
A North West roofing contractor has been fined after an employee fell from a roof ladder and died at the scene.
In May 2021, roof replacement work was being carried out on a domestic property in Burnley by Richard Thornton, trading as Vanguard Roofing. On the final day on site, an employee of Mr Thornton was climbing a triple extending access ladder on the roof, to reach scaffolding at eaves level, whilst carrying a pile of slate on their shoulder. They slipped and fell to the ground, sustaining fatal injuries.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 20 September 2022
In remembrance of Queen Elizabeth II, all of the team at theHRDIRECTOR would like to express our sincere condolences and best wishes to the Royal Family. While we should all rightly mourn her sad passing, we should also celebrate her extraordinary life, her unstinting service of 70 years as Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and the incredible legacy she leaves behind.
Article by: Jason Spiller - theHRDIRECTOR editor 17 September 2022
In the case of Mrs B Knight v Havant & South Downs College, Betty Knight, an English teacher, was accused of not doing enough to promote equality and diversity and was put on an improvement plan after being monitored for just 25 minutes at Havant and South Downs College in Hampshire.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 16 September 2022
There is emerging evidence that bias built into algorithms can lead to less favourable treatment of people with protected characteristics such as race and sex. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has made tackling discrimination in AI a major strand of its new three-year strategy.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 15 September 2022
In the case of Ms A. Balogun v Cubitt Town Infants School Ms Balogun started working as a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) 1:1 Teaching Assistant for a child with an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) from 6 January 2020 until 28 January 2021. An East London Employment Tribunal heard Ms Balogun, who is black British, is a single mother of two looking after a boy and girl, both school-aged.
Article by: Makbool Javaid, Partner - Simons Muirhead & Burton 14 September 2022
