In X v Citizens Advice Bureau, X signed a volunteer agreement to work four to five hours a week for a Citizens Advice Bureau. The volunteer agreement specifically stated that it was “not an employment contract of employment or legally binding”. The CAB subsequently asked the volunteer to stop working for the organisation. She claimed that this was disability discrimination.
In Smith v Trafford Housing Trust, Mr Smith posted a link on his Facebook wall to a BBC news article entitled “Gay church marriages set to get the go-ahead” and commented that it was “an equality too far”. In response, his colleague posted a comment on his wall, “Does this mean you don’t approve?”
In Optimum Group Services Plc v Muir, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a Tribunal should have deducted a settlement payment received by the claimant from another employer when calculating the award, in accordance with the principle that the same loss cannot be recovered twice.
In December 2012, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published its response to a consultation on how to implement the new ‘employee owner’ scheme, whereby employees will forfeit major employment rights in exchange for taking a stake in their business.. This is an unusually fast response from the Government who only announced the scheme at the conservative party conference in October 2012.
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