Hello and welcome to PJH Law’s Case of the Week. This week, we look at the importance of ensuring that complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace are dealt with seriously. A failure by an employer to properly investigate allegations of sexual harassment could land them in hot water. Such behaviour is likely to breach [...]
Today we are looking at how The High Court have clarified the law in relation to sexual harassment in the workplace in a recent judgment that was appealed to them by the police misconduct tribunal. The Facts PC England was a police officer for Dyfed-Powys Police in Wales. Over a period of roughly half a [...]
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has released guidance on how to approach sexual harassment issues at work, including that of harassment by a third party. Many of the points are not too dissimilar to Phil’s book on the subject but one of the key issues raised in the guidance is to be proactive and not sit on allegations [...]
An independent report into the British Medical Association, the UK’s largest medical trade union, has described it as an old boys club that undervalues women with instances of sexism and harassment. The report was conducted by Daphne Romney QC and found that female union members and union staff alike were undervalued and ignored due to […]
When sex discrimination is mentioned, most people immediately think of the discriminating conduct being against a women. Statistically this is usually true as the majority of sex discrimination claims heard before the employment tribunal are brought by women. However, there can be instances when men can be discriminated against on the grounds of their sex […]
Hello and welcome back to your weekly case law update. Last week was our monthly employment law update which had features on Labour’s employment policies, the most recent IR35 tax judgments and a case about how virtual reality (VR) is being used to teach soft skills. Prior to that, our last case law update concerned […]
Attitudes towards sexual harassment have significantly evolved over the past two years. Slowly but surely, victims of harassment feel able to call out the treatment they were subjected to and employers are better equipped at preventing, investigating and responding to such complaints.
Greetings and welcome back to your monthly employment law update; all the month’s big stories rolled into a tedious one email that will see you through your Friday morning. Last week we had a double case law update covering tribunal procedure and limitation dates. Last month’s update had features on NDAs and injury to feelings […]
The final Friday of the month is upon us which means it’s time for a roundup of everything employment law. Last month’s update had features on the Church of England employment status scandal, mental health first aid and another supermarket equal pay claim. Meanwhile, last week’s case law update concerned vicarious liability and Christmas Party […]
Hello and welcome back to your weekly case law update. Last week we had our monthly Employment Law Update, with features on Justin Welby, mental health & safety and equal pay. There was also a feature on tribunal statistics which mentioned a possible time lag for sexual harassment claims. Well, this week we have a […]
Sexual harassment has been one of the biggest employment law issues over the past 12-18 months. Following the MeToo movement, women are increasingly and rightly standing up to harassment issues both in work and day-to-day life. The Women and Equalities Commission has published its report on the issue that has made several recommendations to reduce […]
Phil Neville: The FA’s latest PR Disaster Good morning. As we move into February, January is a mere speck in the rear-view mirror -hooray. So long perpetual darkness and cold weather, ye shan’t be missed! Last week, our case law update looked at the effective date of termination, this week, we have our round-up of […]
Lighter Side Of The News: Kiosk Keith Kicked Out To finish off this month’s update we have another tale of the bizarre. Over the years we have seen some remarkably silly things – a personal favorite being someone who when at his disciplinary for alleged swearing opened the disciplinary meeting by saying, ‘what the […]
No newsletter would be complete without a tale so incredulous that it ends up in a tabloid media storm. This month’s wooden spoon goes to the manager of a biscuit factory who , among other things wrote the following lewd message in an employee’s birthday card: ‘Lisa it’s your birthday, I bet you’re thrilled to […]
