At EmployEasily HR we recognise that, for busy business people like you, complying with uk employment law can be a distraction that takes your focus away from growing your business. So to save you time and help you avoid costly employment tribunals, we plan to host a series of Employment Law seminars towards the end [...]

Dunfermlinepress.com reported last week that Dunfermline Electronics firm Simclar International Ltd have been ordered to pay Alexander Shand £8009 after an Employment Tribunal panel concluded the his sacking for failing to clock out to attend a hospital appointment was unfair. Remarkably, the firm’s original decision to dismiss Mr Shand for ‘gross misconduct’ was upheld following [...]

A pilot for a new case management system for Employment Tribunals and ACAS Individual Conciliation called Caseflow started in the Nottingham Employment Tribunal and ACAS offices in late November 2009. The main goal of this initiative is to deliver improvements in efficiency and effectiveness by replacing the current paper based system with an electronic one [...]

A nurse facing disciplinary action for wearing a cross necklace has accepted redeployment and instructed her lawyers to file a claim of discrimination. The nurse was asked to remove a cross by her employers on the grounds of safety and uniform policy. The nurse appeared on GMTV this week, and has claimed she was unaware [...]

A judge will rule this week whether a default retirement age of 65 is necessary to the UK government’s social or employment policy objectives, bringing to an end a lengthy legal process that has been running for almost three years. Hundreds of employment tribunals are on hold until this case clarifies the law, with millions [...]

A Muslim cocktail waitress has won damages after refusing to wear a skimpy dress. Fata Lemes resigned from her job at the Rocket Bar in Mayfair when she was asked to wear a red dress which she claimed made her look like a prostitute. She later took the owners to a tribunal, winning over £2000 [...]

The statutory limit on a week’s pay for redundancy payment calculations will rise by £30 to £380 in October this year. The increase means the maximum statutory redundancy payment will rise from £10,500 to £11,400. The increased limit will also apply to the basic part of unfair dismissal compensation awards (although the compensatory part of [...]

The House of Lords has finally concluded that employees can make potentially unlimited backdated claims for unpaid holiday pay. HMRC v Stringer & others is linked to two issues, the first being employees who are on sick leave at the end of a holiday year entitled to be paid for the holidays they had accrued [...]