Backhouse Solicitors’ blog
A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal found that a night care worker required to sleep in at a service user’s home was entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for all hours worked, including time spent asleep. In the case of Focus Care Agency v [...]
What is changing? October 2017 will bring a new pre-action protocol for debt recovery claims which will significantly change the way businesses (including sole traders) can recover debts from individuals. The protocol does not apply to businesses contracting with other businesses. The aim of the protocol [...]
Every now and again, an employer may sometimes face the situation where an employee goes off sick for a long period of time and shows little or no prospect to their employer of ever returning because of their prognosis. The normal route in such circumstances is [...]
In a grand finale to the long running legal battle between Unison and the UK Government, the Supreme Court has today found in favour of Unison and ruled that Employment Tribunal fees are unlawful. Background Employment Tribunal fees were introduced on 29 July 2013 by the [...]
Nowadays employees have come to accept that monitoring in the workplace is a routine part of the employer/employee relationship. Most employers will conduct some form of checks whether on the quality of work produced by their workforce or to ensure that health and safety regulations are [...]
Research recently conducted by Citizens Advice has revealed that a staggering 50% of people on zero hours contracts wrongly assume they are not entitled to paid holiday. The research suggested that some employers were unwittingly misleading staff as a result of their own ignorance but others [...]
With Eid Al Fitr taking place this week we look at employment issues experienced by Muslims in the UK today. As early as 2014 the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey found that British Muslims faced the worst job discrimination of any minority group. Little [...]
April is always an important month for employment law and this year was no exception. Here we outline the new regulations introduced this year as well as other recent important changes: National Minimum Wage – Effective from 6th April, the National Minimum Wage increased as follows: [...]
As Pride month approaches, our employment law team takes a look at transgender discrimination in the workplace and in particular what employers can do to avoid such behaviour. What is Transgender Discrimination? Transgender people are those whose personal identity or gender does not correspond with their [...]
An Employment Tribunal has recently ruled that a beauty therapist was unfairly dismissed and suffered sex discrimination after she was made redundant following a row over childcare arrangements. The employee had worked at a fitness centre for almost 10 years and had a flexible working agreement [...]
