Welcome With Spring having (apparently) sprung, welcome to this month’s Update. My mention of the time of year is (you’ll be unsurprised to hear) a clumsy segue into some news from France about spring cleaning, housework and whether shirking...
Over the last couple of years, the Employment Tribunals have faced a number of logistical challenges due to Covid, in how it deals with cases. This has resulted in the Presidents of both the England & Wales and Scotland Employment Tribunals...
The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) and Licensing Act 2003 (Personal and Premises Licences) (Forms), etc, Regulations 2022 came into force on 6th April 2022...
As a result of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this year, the government announced that there will be an extra bank holiday 3rd June 2022. As such, this will result in nine bank holidays this year, as opposed to the normal eight days...
In the recent case of Nissan Motor (GB) Limited and Nissan Motor CO., Limited v Passi, the High Court considered the interesting legal issue of whether a former employee could retain confidential documents belonging to his former employer for the...
Another year; another raft of changes to employment law. Thankfully, given the challenges that last couple of years has presented, the changes could be considered to be relatively uncontroversial. We have set out some of the key changes below...
DC Employment Solicitors acted in the unusual case of Gardiner Graphics Group Limited v Russell Pay, a sprawling, drawn out case lasting approaching three years from beginning to end. Initially, injunction proceedings in the High Court were...
In the case of Gardiner Graphics Group Limited v Russell Pay, the court had to consider a claim for damages by the claimant company against the defendant (for whom this firm acted) for alleged breaches of restrictive covenants contained within a...
We are excited to announce our next HR Breakfast Meeting being held at The Potters Heron Hotel on Wednesday 27th April 2022. If you haven’t attended previously, it’s a great opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, share stories and...
I appreciate there are now greater concerns world-wide, but you’ve probably had as much as you can take in terms of existential misery, none more so than the poor and brave Ukrainians. So, we’ll concentrate on employment law and pretend for just...
In January 2022, research showed that the Employment Tribunal had seen a record number of claims relating to flexible working requests: an increase of 52%. It is expected that this increase was largely as a result of the pandemic and increased...
In the case of Hope v British Medical Association, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (‘EAT’) considered the interesting situation relating to the fairness of a dismissal of an employee who had been deemed to have raised vexatious grievances. The...
