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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that a settlement of an Employment Tribunal (ET) claim by way of a COT3 agreement did not extinguish the claimant's right to be provided with written reasons for the ET's decision ( Jeffery v Givaudan UK Ltd ...
An Employment Tribunal (ET) has ruled that a university professor who submitted a promotion application which included the dean's signature without authorisation was not unfairly dismissed. The professor had begun working for the university in 2013. She had...
The Supreme Court has clarified the meaning of Regulation 5(2) of the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 , ruling that it does not require that part-time status be the sole ground or reason for less favourable...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a man's appeal against the rejection of his complaints of discrimination arising from disability and victimisation ( Shah v Home Office ). The man had been employed by the Home Office. He had been off sick...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dismissed a woman's appeal against a decision of the Employment Tribunal (ET) to reduce the percentage uplift on awards for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination in respect of failure to follow the Advisory,...
The Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal by a former employee of an IT services company against an order that he reimburse his employer for training costs, ruling that the contractual provisions allowing the employer to claw back those costs amounted to an...
The government has recently updated the timetable for implementing key changes in the Employment Rights Act 2025 . Electronic and workplace balloting for statutory trade union ballots is scheduled to take effect by the end of August 2026. On 1 October...
In a ruling that provides clarification on the right of employees to be given an itemised pay statement, contained in Section 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 , the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dismissed a man's appeal against a decision that...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that the belated imposition of a cap on an employee's bonus amounted to an unlawful deduction from wages, overturning a decision of the Employment Tribunal (ET) dismissing his claim ( Chandrashekarappa v Wipro...
The government has launched a consultation on reforms relating to zero-hours and similar contracts , to implement measures in the Employment Rights Act 2025 to end one-sided flexibility. The reforms aim to reduce the insecurity of hours and income that...
