Employment Law Vault

Summary:  Employers should consult on proposed pool for redundancy – especially when picking a pool of one. In  Valimulla v Al-Khair Foundation  the Claimant worked as a liaison officer covering the North-West of England. There were...

Summary:  Not very much to see here - light on the detail. Reform UK’s manifesto (or ‘contract’, as they call it) is light on detail in terms of its plans for employment law. Here’s what it says: - A promise to abolish IR35...

Summary:  Labour election commitments - part two. Labour’s Manifesto included a pledge to implement  Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay: Delivering a New Deal for Working People  in full. Several employment changes were expressly...

Summary:  New Deal to be implemented in full and a few odd extras. Labour have published their  election manifesto  for the 2024 general election.  The manifesto includes a stated aim to implement  ‘Labour’s Plan to...

Summary:  EAT follows  Bathgate  – future claims settled by compromise agreement. In  Clifford v IBM ,  the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the tribunal had been correct to strike-out the Claimant’s claim of...

Summary:  A big pile of nothing in the Tory manifesto. The  Conservative Manifesto 2024  has been published. A search for the words ‘employment’ and ‘jobs’ displays no proposals about changes to employment law (just...

Summary:  Whether Claimant was disabled should have been assessed at point acts of discrimination occurred. In  Ahmed v DWP  the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the tribunal had erred by assessing whether the Claimant was a disabled...

Summary:  LibDem Manifesto: Part Two The Liberal Democrats have published their  election manifesto  for the 2024 general election. This is part 2; you can read part 1  here .    Here are the rest of the proposals: -...

TL;DR  Some good stuff, but also weird bits. The Liberal Democrats have published their  election manifesto  for the 2024 general election. This bulletin deals with some of their proposals; we will cover the rest tomorrow. Here are some of...

TL;DR  Covid holiday policy not discriminatory. In  Zaluski v NSL ,  the Respondent had a policy that employees had to return on time from annual leave and include any quarantine period in their leave during the covid...