Posts from October 2018
Joanne Moseley
Employee called a "fat ginger pikey" loses harassment case
How on earth can an employee refer to a member of staff in this way and, effectively, get away with it? The law The Equality Act 2010...
25/10/18
Joanne Moseley
New Government guidance makes it tougher to remove exam results from performance data
Schools and FE colleges that have applied for the exam results of pupils with serious illnesses, or who are home educated, to be...
24/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Morrisons vicariously liable for deliberate data breach by "rogue" employee
Yesterday the Court of Appeal confirmed that the supermarket, Morrisons will have to pay damages to thousands of employees whose data was...
23/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
8,000 Tesco workers join new equal pay claim
Tesco is facing a barrage of additional equal pay claims. Under equal pay law in the UK, staff can challenge their pay rates as compared...
03/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
Abuse of Process: Council's enforcement prosecution "based on .... an improper motive"
It is not very often that I am genuinely taken aback by the facts of a Court of Appeal case, but R v The Knightland Foundation and Jacob...
02/10/18