Hello and welcome back to your weekly case law update. Given we are forecasted showers all weekend it seems apt to start the weekend with something dry and some EAT judgments certainly fall into that category! Last week’s update had two cases for you, one concerning religion/belief discrimination and another about Tribunal Awards. This week […]
Our next case takes a slight detour away from traditional employment law to the European Court of Human Rights via the scenic route of Romania on how does the right to private life interact with an employer email and computer use policy? Mr Barbulescu, the Claimant, worked in sales and was asked to set up […]
To round off this month’s update we bring you another tale of haphazard employment law. A guilty-pleasure browse of any tabloid website will no doubt feature an article on someone who was sacked for arbitrary/ridiculous/hilarious (delete as appropriate) reasons and this month is no different. This month’s culprit was a butcher who was dismissed for gross misconduct […]
Every month we like to include an outlandish sacking that falls into the grasp of sensationalist tabloid newspapers. This month a McDonald’s employee was sacked after taunting a homeless person about being hungry and then throwing a burger on the floor for him to eat. The incident took place outside of work but the employee filmed […]
Another month another sensationalist story. Every month we try and bring you the most absurd piece of news from that part of the Daily Mail next to the sidebar of shame (you know, the news bit), this month’s entrant is Eleonora Verbitskaya, a Russian bureaucrat who was sacked after racy pictures of her were found online. Ms […]
Deaf snipers, knife wielding teachers,cake eating cafeteria workers, every month an employment law case gets swept in the perfect storm that is tabloid journalism. This month’s sensationalist story concerns a warehouse worker who was sacked for liking a picture of a co-workers fleece on Facebook. Troy Garod, the employee in question, worked for Bertram Books and […]
Good afternoon, on a sunny Friday we thought it fitting that this weeks’ case concerns an employee posting drunk comments on Facebook when they were on standby to work. Maybe it’s best not to sneak off early to the beer garden. The question this week is: Is it fair dismiss to an employee for a […]
Once again there are no new EAT judgments for us to write about, however, we have found another story that has made headlines this week which is an employment law conundrum. As some of you may be aware local football team Leicester City FC have been embroiled in scandal this week. Tabloid newspapers obtained […]
The question this week is Are employee’s personal social media accounts capable of bringing an employer’s reputation into disrepute? This is the first EAT case involving Twitter. The Respondent, GAME, has over 300 stores in the UK. Mr Laws, the Claimant, was employed as a risk and loss prevention investigator and was in charge of […]
Social Media is becoming a hot topic in many businesses. As well as being a valuable business tool for marketing and staff recruitment, social media can present a number of risks – both legal and reputational to organisations when used inappropriately. Those risks can be mitigated by ensuring all employees understand their employer’s rules on the use […]
Following the case of Smith v Trafford Housing Trust and a recent case involving an employee’s linked in account, many employers are now ensuring they have policies and procedures in place to govern this tricky area of social media that traverses both home and work life.
The latest story to hit the headlines about Facebook concerns comments made by Essex police not realising they could be seen by members of the public. The officers made inappropiate comments which are now being investigated as misconduct. You can read the full story here. The rules about Facebook it seems to me are simple. […]
