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Welcome to the May issue of Hempsons’ Employment News Brief, outlining the latest employment law issues. Click here for a PDF version of the full news brief which includes all of the below articles. Whistleblowing: disclosures made after a worker’s employment ends can …Read more…

ACAS Guidance on collective redundancies ACAS has published non-statutory guidance on collective redundancies following the changes in collective consultation obligations effective from 6 April 2013. Specifically, where 100 or more employees at one establishment are affected: The minimum period before …Read more…

The Employment Appeal Tribunal “EAT” has recently confirmed, in Jennings-v-Barts and the London NHS Trust, that the dismissal of a long term sick disabled employee was fair and further that exempting the employee from formal attendance management procedures was not …Read more…

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), in Onu v Akwiwu, has held that the Equality Act 2010 does protect individuals from post-employment victimisation, departing from its previous (and very recent) decision in Rowstock Ltd v Jessemey. Background Both cases looked at …Read more…

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld the Employment Tribunal (ET)’s decision that a dispute about pay and bonus was insufficient for the employer to rely on as a breakdown of trust and confidence and was not within the remit …Read more…