This month saw the Tribunal award over £90,000 over inappropriate use of a jazz hands emoji!

Paula Miluska, who was suffering from severe morning sickness, asked to work from home on the advice of her midwife. Shortly afterwards her boss responded to the request with a message with words to the effect of ‘get stuffed’ as well as including a jazz hands emoji. For those of us not generationally inclined and to save you the effort of googling what I’m talking about – I mean this one: 🤗.

Turns out that emojis aren’t good HR policy and the Tribunal found in favour of the Claimant. A strong judicial precedent set here – now we just need a Tribunal determination on whether the facepalm emoji amounts to a breach of trust and confidence!