Paul Doran An 88-year-old has recently become the oldest person in the UK to win an age discrimination case. Here’s the story… In 1991, Eileen Jolly was aged 61, and joined what’s now known as the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust where she went on to work in various roles. In 2005, she became a medical secretary …
Below is a query that we received recently from a client whose employer was seeking to change her shift pattern without consent. This is one of our most common queries. I have worked for 20 hours a week over 3 days per week for the last 3 years as a hairdresser. My employer has now …
If your ethnic origin is a minority in the UK, such as being black or Asian, the sad situation is that you’re more likely to suffer racial harassment or discrimination at work. The TUC recently surveyed 5,000 people in a poll called Racism Ruins Lives. They found that 65% of all BAME participants reported racial …
The Equality Act 2010 is designed to protect you on the basis of your actual or perceived sexual orientation. For example, here’s a case that hit the news in February 2019. Ben Plaistow joined HMP Woodhill as a prison officer in September 2014. One week in, a colleague asked if he was gay, apparently because …
Let’s imagine you’ve been called into a meeting with your boss and they offer you a settlement agreement – that is, an amount of money in return for you leaving the business or dropping your complaint against them. (Note that settlement agreements are known as compromise agreements in Northern Ireland.) Here are some of the …
Here’s the story of a Belfast employee who won her religious discrimination case and was awarded £20,000 by the tribunal. Helen Scott worked at Stevenson & Reid’s plumbing showroom in East Belfast from 2011 to 2015. When her line manager (one of the company directors) discovered he was due to attend a meeting in her …
Employment law is rarely out of the news, and there have been a number of cases that have hit the headlines recently. In this new regular feature, we’ve selected a few stories from recent months that you might find particularly interesting. As employment law solicitors, you should get in touch if any of these issues …
Even if things are going horribly wrong at work, and you feel forced into a position where you have no choice but to leave… don’t resign! Why not? Because you lose a lot of power in future negotiations if you leave your job of your own accord. Why should your employer pay you to leave …
With effect from 6 April 2019, employers will have to change how they provide payslips. First, they must give an itemised payslip to every worker, not just to employees. This can be printed or emailed. Second, where pay varies according to time worked, the payslip will have to show the hours worked as well as …
“Have I been dismissed?” YES – if your employer told you to leave. MAYBE – if you resigned because you felt you had to. For example, the working conditions were intolerable, or because your employer changed you onto a detrimental contract of employment. NO – if you resigned through your own choice. NO – if …