Welcome Happy New Year to you all! This employment law update has, in the past, been described as both “mildly amusing” and “reasonably informative” – we’ll take that. But unfortunately, the description “sporadic” has crept into the picture...
Welcome! Welcome to our Autumn newsletter. What happened to the summer edition you say? Well, summer’s lease has all too short a date – too hot the eye of heaven shone, and so I didn’t get around to it. But speaking of temperature, last...
Welcome! It feels as if we’ve been away for about a year – our busiest year on record caused the hiatus but two new solicitors have joined us (see below) and we’re now back on form. Fortunately, nothing out of the ordinary has...
Welcome And in a packed issue this month we consider some recent decisions concerning the fairness in recruitment and in dismissals, as well as taking a look at a white van man’s altercation with a cyclist and the employment fall-out...
Welcome It’s Christmas party season again and you will have no doubt received the annual doomy solicitors’ warnings (about as welcome as a Victorian Aunt at a boozy dinner) about office parties, mentioning the word ‘Christmas’ and having fun. In...
A specialist construction contractor has praised a Southampton legal firm for its help with resolving skills gaps, managing staff welfare and enabling rapid growth here and overseas. Laurence Dunn, Director of DC Employment Solicitors, and his...
DC Employment Solicitors’ Laurence Dunn and two fellow keen cyclists (all three describing themselves as “in the prime of their lives”) will be taking on the challenge of riding 500 miles in relay over three days, in order to raise much needed...
Welcome The Summer season brings with it silly season stories and one in particular this year involved a criminal case presided over by Judge Patricia Lynch QC. The criminal was (accurately) described by the judge as a vile racist. Firstly, when...
Welcome I have it on what I believe to be good authority that women have enough difficulty in deciding what they should wear to work generally* and the developments over the last few weeks will not have made things any easier. Firstly, there was...
Welcome Employment law headline of the year so far goes to the Daily Mail: “The monkey girl at London Zoo scent-marked my boyfriend and behaved like an animal: Meerkat handler speaks out over spat with a love rival that cost her job, her...
Welcome ‘Hubris’ has been the watchword of the week – mainly in the context of motor cars/ exhaust emissions/alleged wide-scale fraud. We at DC Employment avoid hubris like the plague (just as we do with cliché). Our motto is ‘humility verging on...
Welcome Welcome to the August edition of the Employment Law Update – the edition that is read on beaches and around pools all over Europe and far flung holiday destinations. In the unlikely event that you are actually doing that, you may be...
