Posted by Arpita Dutt on 25 April, 2018 Employers everywhere, sharpen your pencils and find your calculators. Tax on employment termination payments has changed and you will need to dust off your arithmetic. The objective of the new regime is said to be tax...
Posted by Arpita Dutt on 23 April, 2018 An employer was found to have directly discriminated against an employee on the basis of a hearing disability it perceived that employee to have. The Employment Appeal Tribunal stated that the evidence clearly showed that the...
Posted by Arpita Dutt on 23 April, 2018 The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that compensation for injury to feelings can in principle be awarded in respect of working time detriment claims. This type of compensation is available in trade union and...
Posted by Arpita Dutt on 23 April, 2018 The level of certain awards which can be awarded by Employment Tribunals will increase from 6 April 2018. Each April, compensation limits for Employment Tribunal cases increase in line with the Retail Price Index. The maximum...
Posted by Arpita Dutt on 23 April, 2018 The Court of Appeal has decided that the test was not whether the employer did all it could to determine whether an employee was disabled and exhaust every option open to them; rather, it was whether the employer could be...
