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.

Settlement agreements are voluntary, legally binding contracts which are usually proposed by an employer to end an employee’s contract in a mutually beneficial way where the alternative would involve redundancy or taking the matter to an employment tribunal.

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.

If your business provides services, goods or facilities to the public, you are responsible for the actions of the employees and agents that represent the business.  It is important to ensure that everyone is aware of everything that would constitute discrimination against your customers, to avoid hefty claims. Types of discrimination against customers A recent […]

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.