Employment law stories in the news – 24.06.2019 to 30.06.2019
In the latest of our series of posts on employment law stories in the news, we take a look at ten employment law stories that have made headlines between 24 June 2019 and 30 June 2019
- Treasury faces annual £4bn bill after pensions ruling – The UK government is facing potential annual costs of £4bn after being denied leave to appeal against a landmark ruling that pension reforms discriminated against younger workers by protecting the retirement benefits of older staff (The Financial Times)
- Employment tribunals ‘failing to cope’ with rise in cases – Two years after the government was forced to scrap fees for employment law cases tribunals are struggling to cope with the increased workload, lawyers have said (The Times)
- Bias claim to go ahead against buyers of bust law firm – A City solicitor will be allowed to bring a discrimination claim against the buyers of her former law firm, which went into administration (The Sunday Times)
- Saudi diplomat ‘paid domestic Filipino worker 63p an hour, put buzzer around her neck and fed her leftovers’ – A Saudi diplomat allegedly paid a domestic worker in London just 63p an hour and made her “wear a buzzer around her neck”, an employment tribunal has heard (The Independent)
- Solicitor can sue firm as employee after ‘informal’ partnership rejected – A solicitor introduced to an elevated role in her former firm through a historic partnership agreement can make an employment claim as an employee, a tribunal has ruled (The Law Society Gazette)
- Police officer’s ‘perceived disability’ was discriminatory – It is discriminatory to refuse employment because of a perception that a health condition will affect a person’s ability to work in future, the Court of Appeal has confirmed.
- Solicitor proceeds with discrimination claim against firm and members – A City solicitor who brought proceedings against her former firm – only for that firm to go into administration – can proceed with her claim against the purchasing party, a tribunal has ruled (The Law Society Gazette)
- Cheating husband sued by daughter – A daughter has successfully sued her father for £5,000 in a feud over his affair with an employee at the family’s equestrian centre (The Times)
- Employee who won tribunal case against Spicerhaart now awarded £10,000 costs – A former employee of Spicerhaart has been awarded £10,000 costs after winning her employment tribunal case (Property Industry Eye)
- Tribunal finds that St Mungo’s victimised former staff member – Leigh Andrews took her case to the employment tribunal after being refused work as a locum worker for the charity because of bullying allegations made and then dropped 14 years before (Third Sector)