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You might be wondering if redundancy can be unfair dismissal? If you’ve been chosen for redundancy, your employer has to follow a fair process. That didn’t happen in this case, and the employee was able to make a claim for unfair dismissal… For 11 years, Mr Ghaffar was an information and advice worker at Age …
“Am I being paid enough?” The National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) have increased every year since their introduction. From April this year, there has been quite a jump! It means 2.9 million of the lowest paid workers in the UK get a pay rise! It’s good timing, because we all need …
Disability laws in Great Britain and Northern Ireland There is an important difference between the way disability discrimination is treated in Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI). Disabled people in the rest of the UK are protected from discrimination arising from disability under the Equality Act 2010. However, Northern Ireland has its own equality …
Dismissed because you broke the rules? Read this. If an employee performs badly or breaks company rules, their employer has a range of options. Depending on the seriousness of the action, they could train them, go through an informal or formal grievance procedure, or dismiss them. If dismissal is an over-reaction considering the circumstances, you …
You might remember our January article ‘How do I claim equal pay?’ We wrote about journalist Samira Ahmed, who accused the BBC of paying her unfairly compared with Jeremy Vine. Jeremy was paid up to £3,000 per episode for presenting Points of View on BBC1, while Samira received just £440 per episode of Newswatch on …
What to do if you are harassed at work Imagine this. You discover a WhatsApp group dedicated to racially abusing you and a colleague. That’s what happened to Ms M Abdi. Here’s the story. In 2017, Ms Abdi joined Deltec International Courier Ltd in Hounslow, Middlesex as an operations clerk. In August 2018, there was …
How much should my holiday pay be? With the children back at school, the main holiday season might be over. But there are still a lot of questions around holiday pay – especially this year when we’ve had some unexpected extra days off for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in May and her state funeral in …
If you have a health condition that means you’ve been labelled “clinically extremely vulnerable” to coronavirus, you’ve probably been shielding for the past year or so, unable to go to work as usual. The vaccine programme is now rolling out across the UK, and more than 9/10 people in the same health category as you …
“Can my last employer stop me taking a job?” If you’ve been dismissed from your previous employment, you might think you can take the first job you’re offered. But that might not be the case. As with many legal situations, it depends on the contract that’s in place at the time. What does your contract …
When your employer offers you a sum of money to settle a claim you’ve made against them, or in return for being made redundant, you might wonder about the tax implications. The headline news is that any settlement up to and including £30,000 is currently tax-free. However, it’s not as simple as that. The lump …