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Paul Doran A recent study by the Taxpayers’ Alliance found that 2,545 council staff were paid over £100,000 in 2017/8. Of those, 608 earned over £150,000 – that’s more than the Prime Minister! This means that, when senior managers are forced to leave their public sector or local government jobs, their ‘golden goodbye’ payout can also reach six …
We spend a lot of time at work, so it’s terrible when the work environment isn’t what it should be. Have you experienced any of these situations on one or more occasions? You’ve been bullied or harassed at work You’ve been forced to work unreasonable hours You’ve been put under undue stress at work You’ve …
If you have a disability, your employer has a duty to make reasonable adjustments for you. If they don’t, you have the right to make a claim for disability discrimination. That’s what happened to our client, Mandy Linsley, who started work at HMRC in 2001. Because she has ulcerative colitis, she sometimes needs to use …
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 …