Employment

A redundancy exercise run by a law firm in its conveyancing department following the first lockdown in 2020 was genuine, an employment tribunal has ruled in dismissing an unfair dismissal claim.

A law firm has been ordered to pay a former Jewish employee £26,500 in damages after it fired him for not attending work when instructed, even though it was a religious holiday he had booked off.

The High Court has upheld a 12-month non-compete clause imposed by a niche employment practice on a director joining national law firm Weightmans.

A solicitor has won a claim for constructive unfair dismissal after his employer tried to transfer him to a new law firm without notice or consultation.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that a barrister who sat as a tribunal chair for the Nursing and Midwifery Council was a ‘worker’ and entitled to sickness and holiday pay.

A solicitor who sacked a member of staff after she complained he had persistently harassed her while she was off sick has lost his appeal against an unfair dismissal ruling.

An employment law platform is targeting the growing number of people bringing their own tribunal claims with a DIY service which helps them through the process at a cost of no more than £500.

A law firm partner dismissed a “inconvenient” member of staff because she was having a difficult pregnancy and taking time off work, an employment tribunal has found.

The solicitor who used to be Nissan’s global general counsel has been ordered to hand over confidential documents he said he retained to take legal advice.

A law firm has been ordered to pay a former staff member £8,500 in damages after finding that a colleague’s remark on her grandmother’s Chinese heritage amounted to racial harassment.

The High Court has struck out libel claims made by a former Warwick University law professor against two fellow academics, an investigator and a law student.

A woman’s fear of catching Covid-19 and need to protect herself and others is not a philosophical belief for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, a tribunal has ruled.

The Ministry of Justice is facing a new pay-out to judges after an employment tribunal found that salaried judges who ‘sit up’ in higher courts from time to time should be paid more for the work.

The Crown Prosecution Service as admitted discriminating against a disabled senior prosecutor by failing to allow him to work from home or return home early to take medication for a heart condition.

Two solicitors who sought to bring claims against the Ministry of Justice for money owed from when they sat as part-time judges over 14 years ago have had them thrown out due to limitation.