How are employees compensated in discrimination cases over and above the loss of earnings that they may have incurred by way of an injury to feelings award. Injury to feelings awards are, unlike unfair dismissal awards, unlimited. The Tribunal will, if it considers that an employee has suffered discrimination, try to compensate that individual so that they are put in the position they would have been had the discrimination not …
Some employers watch the clock run down in the sense that they dismiss employees just before the two years is up.
Where an employee is dismissed months and weeks before two years’ service then there is little that they can do. They have simply not worked there long enough to have accrued most employment rights.
If, however, they are dismissed in the days before two years is up then there is cause for hope.
Radio 4 is running the story of an unfair dismissal case as part of its Untold Story series. Due to be broadcast at 11am on Monday 6th November. The opening story features care home employee, Rachel Burns as she prepares for an Employment Tribunal.
Michael Fallon resigns as Defence Secretary, following an allegation of sexual harassment, his resignation letter states that “in the past” his behaviour “had fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces”. The Allegation Whilst there may be other allegations of harassment in the swirl of accusations, denials and apologies circling around Westminster as part of the list of 40 MPs including 15 Ministers who are deemed …
🔄 Updated for 2025/26 • Last reviewed: 15 January 2026 Written and reviewed by: Tom Street, Solicitor Principal, Tom Street & Co. Solicitors (SRA No. 566718) Last updated: 15 January 2026 ⏱️ 15 minute read Quick Summary A provision, criterion or practice (PCP) is a workplace rule, requirement or way of doing things that applies to everyone but puts people with a protected characteristic at a disadvantage. PCPs are central …
Can anyone make a flexible working request? In order to make and write a flexible working request letter, the employee must have been employed by the same employer for 26 weeks. An employee is only entitled to make one flexible working request every 12 months. If the request is rejected, the employee is entitled to appeal. However, they cannot make a new but slightly different request for another 12 months. In light of …
A summary dismissal is when an employer dismisses an employee without notice or without payment in lieu of notice usually for an act of gross misconduct.
The Court of Appeal has recently provided clarification as to whether uplifts in damages should be applied to injury to feelings awards in Employment Tribunal discrimination cases. The personal injury case of Simmons vs Castle provides authority for an uplift to damages of 10% in certain types of personal injury claims. The increase in compensation in personal injury claims was ordered by the Court of Appeal to compensate claimants for …
There is no legal right to time off for religious duties, prayer, worship and festivals. That said, employees who have been refused time off for religious festivals have brought successful claims in employment tribunals for religious discrimination where there has not been a legitimate business reason behind the refusal. Muslim employees in a Tesco store won a case for harassment when they claimed that the prayer room that they had …
In a bid to narrow the gender pay gap (the difference between the pay of male and female employees) the government introduced legislation requiring all employers with over 250 staff to publish details of their pay gap by March or April 2018. Recently released figures show that only 85 of a possible 9000 organisations have so far complied. The 9000 employers account for just over half of all jobs in …