Part 3 of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 came into force on 30 September 2017 creating the offence of corporate failure to prevent persons associated with the organisation facilitating tax evasion.
| Published: 11 October 2017
The ECJ confirm that collective consultation is required where 20 or more employees may be dismissed if they do not accept unilateral changes proposed to their terms and conditions, e.g. a pay reduction.
| Published: 10 October 2017
An ET finds that the dismissal of a disabled employee after she exceeded the trigger point for action in the employer’s absence policy was discriminatory as reasonable adjustments were not put in place.
| Published: 9 October 2017
A TUC poll of over 1000 BAME workers, which is part of a major new TUC report on racism at work, has found that 37% have been bullied, abused or singled out for unfair treatment.
| Published: 5 October 2017
The High Court holds that an employee can have no reasonable privacy expectation for a personal document saved to his folder on the employer's server.
| Published: 4 October 2017
An ET rejects Addison Lee’s argument that each of their drivers ran a small business, regarding AL as a client; the drivers were in fact workers delivering a service personally to AL according to AL’s requirements.
| Published: 3 October 2017
An ET finds that a director’s comment to a 59-year-old employee that she would be “better suited to a traditional estate agency” amounted to direct age discrimination and harassment related to age.
| Published: 2 October 2017
The Equalities Office has launched a consultation to understand more about the specific barriers returners face in getting back to work and what can be done to support all employers to offer returners opportunities.
| Published: 28 September 2017
New Acas research has found that prejudice can be a daily experience for trans people but poor awareness from employers about the challenges they face can leave them isolated at work.
| Published: 27 September 2017
The MoJ have published the tribunal quarterly statistics for April to June 2017 which show a 2% increase in single claims on the same period of 2016 and that the highest award for unfair dismissal in 2016/17 was £1.7m.
| Published: 26 September 2017
