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HR / Employment Law News

Indirect Sex Discrimination in relation to flexible working requests

The case of XC Trains LTd v CD and ASLEF concerned “indirect discrimination.” Indirect discrimination is where: A non-discriminatory requirement (“Provision, criterion or Practice” or PCP) has a disproportionately adverse effect on…

21 November 2016

HR / Employment Law News

Are you status conscious?

Self-employed, worker, employee, the status of individual’s and their respective rights, has often been a cause for confusion and debate, whether considering the appropriate procedures to follow or if companies are liable for…

28 October 2016

HR / Employment Law News

The dilemma of upholding a complaint of bullying or discrimination in the context of a grievance

The sixty-four-thousand-dollar question: How does an employer uphold a complaint of bullying or discrimination without risking further exposure to a related Employment Tribunal claim? As is invariably the case in respect of…

23 September 2016

HR / Employment Law News

Restrictive Covenants – High Court decision provides further guidance on enforceability

Employers seeking to protect their business in the event of a key employee leaving who may be able to take customers with them will normally include restrictive covenants in employment contracts in…

5 September 2016

HR / Employment Law News

Government investigates contractual non-compete clauses

As part of the Government’s pledge to make Britain the best place in Europe to innovate and start up a new business, Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced plans by the Department…

6 May 2016

HR / Employment Law News

Reasonable restrictive covenants deemed enforceable

In Croesus Financial Services v Bradshaw Restrictive, the High Court held that covenants prohibiting an ex-employee from soliciting or dealing with his former employer’s customers for a year post-termination were not an…

3 December 2013

HR / Employment Law News

Case revisits the question of when to suspend

A recent Court of Appeal case revisits the responsibility placed on employers to ensure that suspension is appropriate in the circumstances, and again warns against knee jerk reactions in this regard. In…

28 February 2012