Employment Law

If you receive a final written warning at work, it means your employer is taking serious disciplinary action against you regarding your performance, behaviour including absences.

If you’re in the process of negotiating a settlement agreement, one of your main concerns will be how it will impact your chances of finding your next job. The good news is that the law surrounding settlement agreements has been designed with the aim of enabling both you and your employer to resolve a dispute under the terms of a mutually beneficial contract. However, there are certain issues relating to future employment you need to be aware of before you sign a settlement agreement.

In situations where an employer is not happy with your performance or doesn’t think that you’re a good fit for the job anymore, you may be offered a settlement agreement.  This is a legal way for your employer to ask you to leave your job, usually by offering you a fixed amount of money and an agreed reference.

Do you feel like you can get out and stretch your legs during a lunch break?  Or do you religiously take lunch sat at your desk; one hand holding your sandwich whilst the other is still vigorously typing away?

Here are 6 frequently asked questions for employees facing redundancy.

The words “in the public interest” were added to whistleblowing legislation in 2013 so that complaints about breaches of a worker’s own employment contract could be excluded from whistleblowing protection, in instances where they were only acting in their own interest.

Disability discrimination can be found to exist when an employer treats an employee unfavourably because of something arising as a consequence of the employee’s disability.

When a problem at work has not been resolved through meetings, mediation or by settlement agreement, employees may be able to make a claim against their employer at an employment tribunal.

In a case that arose when an employee’s mileage claims were noticed to be significantly higher than usual, an internal investigation was carried out and the employee in question attended a disciplinary hearing after which, his employer dismissed him for gross misconduct for falsifying his mileage claims.

A doctor was employed as a consultant at an NHS Hospital but the hospital believed that the doctor had continued to see private patients during her absence despite having been told not to do so while off sick.

Leicester has become a poster city for multicultural Britain. A recent study crowned Narborough Road as officially the most diverse high street in the United Kingdom – its shopkeepers originating from a staggering 23 different countries (and four different continents)

It’s common for companies to move location, whether it’s because they have outgrown their old property or have merged with another company in a different area.