Employment Issues Due to the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Financial Professionals
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the economy worldwide and affected many different industries, including the banking and financial industry. The current situation has given rise to a range of complicated issues for the financial sector to consider when trying to maintain cash flow. It may be that bankers and other financial professionals need to consider […]
Enhancing maternity pay and paying statutory shared parental leave is not discriminatory
In a landmark ruling, the Court of Appeal has stated that employers can enhance maternity pay while only offering statutory pay to workers on shared parental leave (SPL). Capita and Leicestershire Police are the latest employers involved in a court battle over their parental leave policy. For the first 14 weeks of maternity leave, women were […]
Employee who announced pregnancy 3 weeks into new job was unfairly dismissed
A pregnant office manager who faced a ‘hostile, humiliating and offensive environment’ has won claims for unfair dismissal and pregnancy discrimination, an East London employment tribunal has ruled. Eilise Walker was put in a position where she felt both ‘intimidated and degraded’ by her employer, Arco Environmental, because of the potential inconvenience and negative impact […]
Paramedic was unfairly dismissed after sustaining prolonged injury from workplace accident
A paramedic who fell out the back of an ambulance and suffered a long-term injury was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal in Croydon ruled. In March 2016, Anthony Muller, who was employed by London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, did not return to work after falling out of an ambulance because his injured shoulder was slow […]
Teacher abuse and discrimination leads to nearly £15 million in compensation in 2018
Teachers across the UK have been awarded £14.9m in compensation over the past 12 months after suffering “appalling treatment” in attacks from pupils and discrimination at work, a teachers’ union has claimed. In 2018, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) reported an increase in cases relating to discrimination by employers towards […]
Only 1% of new parents used shared parental leave in 2018
According to recent research from the TUC, just 9,200 out of more than 900,000 eligible parents chose to use shared parental leave last year. Four years after the system as introduced, the TUC found the take-up of shared parental leave was still so low because the majority of new fathers could not afford to live […]
Employee was racially discriminated against during drug investigation, tribunal rules
A trainee emergency call operator who was using off-the-shelf caffeine supplements was racially discriminated against during a drug investigation in the workplace, a London tribunal rules. Jerry Ogbonna was suspended without pay for five days by employers Partnership of East London Cooperatives (PELC) after he was accused of consuming and distributing illegal drugs to his […]
Pimlico Plumbers worker loses claim for £74,000 holiday pay
A heating engineer from Kent, who won a claim against Pimlico Plumbers at the Supreme Court in June 2018, has now lost his claim for £74,000 in annual leave as he had not filed the paperwork quickly enough, an employment tribunal in Croydon ruled. The Supreme Court decision last year upheld a previous Court of […]
Pregnant police officer placed in desk job wins sex discrimination case
A police constable in the response team at Devon and Cornwall Police who was taken away from front line duties and placed in a desk-based role was the subject of pregnancy discrimination and indirect discrimination, an employment tribunal rules. On 21 November 2017, Mrs Town notified her line manager that she was pregnant and, although […]
Woman was unfavourably treated when sent an inaccessible email on maternity leave
A woman on maternity leave was unfavourably treated, but not discriminated against, when her employer sent an important email regarding redundancy plans to an email address she could not access, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled. Mrs Pease began her maternity leave in March 2016 and planned to return to work on 3 January 2017. […]