Definition of harassment The Equality Act 2010 defines harassment at Section 26 as follows: A person (A) harasses another (B) if A engages in unwanted conduct related to a relevant protected characteristic which has the purpose or effect of either: Violating B’s dignity, or Creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for B. Please note that sexual harassment has a further definition relating to rejection or submission of …
Dismissals arising out of social media posts Never before have the boundaries between work and home been so blurred. Where once disgruntled employees poured their woes out to each other in the pub after work they now take to social media to air their grievances. As a result social media dismissals have become far more prevalent. For example, the finance team from Dilly Dolly Daydream Washing Powder Company set up …
If you have suffered a detriment at work, you may be able to claim against your employer in the employment tribunal. A detriment at work is when an employee is treated in an unfair manner by the employer but that does not go as far as to dismiss the employee. An example of this could be, not being given the chance for promotion or not being given access to the …
Statutory rights are the basic rights that almost all workers and employees are entitled to. There are some exceptions, but generally, all employers must abide by them and they give the worker legal entitlement. The statutory rights are as follows: the right to be paid the minimum wage or the national living wage (if over the age of 25); the right to not have unlawful deductions made from the workers …
What are the legal implications of using CCTV in the workplace? According to recent research, the average person is estimated to be caught on CCTV surveillance systems up to 70 times per day. This can be far higher for those living in the capital. A fair chunk of this footage is usually caught at a persons place of work, with many companies having cameras installed as part of security and …
A recent report by the Women and Equalities Committee, is calling for better protection from discrimination for new mothers. If new proposals go ahead, pregnant women and new mothers may be given better protection from redundancy at work. Following a report published by the Women and Equalities Committee, earlier this year, a redundancy ban for all pregnant women, new mothers and for up to 6 months after returning to work following …
Do UK Employment Tribunals have the jurisdiction to hear claims from overseas workers working for a British company? In the United Kingdom, workers seeking to enforce their employment rights are entitled to take their employers to employment tribunals. Some workers find it difficult to prove that they are entitled to bring their claims to British employment tribunals either because they spend the majority of their working time overseas or because they …
Constructive dismissal is a resignation which is deemed a dismissal. In other words, an employee’s position becomes so untenable because of the serious conduct of the employer that the contract between them necessarily comes to an end. Section 95(1)(c) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 Section describes the circumstances in which a resignation will amount to a dismissal: …the employee terminates the contract under which he is employed with or …
September 2016 has seen the publication of a research paper by Warwick University entitled “Do Women Ask?” It attempts to explore one of the possible explanations for the failure of the gender pay gap to disappear or even narrow despite 40 years having passed since the Equal Pay Act hit the statute books. It considers whether women are paid less because they simply do not ask for promotions or pay …
If you are not paid correctly then you may be entitled to make a claim for unlawful deductions from wages. Unlawful deduction claims can be used to claim for all types of pay including: Notice pay; Unpaid overtime; Contractual bonuses; Redundancy pay; When can my employer make deductions from my pay? There are only three circumstances in which an employer can make deductions from your pay. (1) The deduction is …