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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
2 February 2011
Employment Watch Winter 2011 - Dismissal for raising “false” discrimination claims is not necessarily victimisation
Under the old, pre-Equality Act 2010, discrimination legislation, and also under the Equality Act itself, it is unlawful victimisation for an employer to dismiss, or subject to other detriment, an employee who has performed a “protected act”. “Protected acts” can include an employee alleging unlawful discrimination.
2 February 2011
Employment Watch Winter 2011 - Legal costs in Employment Tribunals
The normal rule in English litigation is that the losing party bears the winning party’s costs. However, in Employment Tribunal cases, each party usually only pays its own legal costs, win or lose. Employers have often complained that this encourages bogus claims in which employers have to pay their own legal costs defending completely unmeritorious proceedings.
2 February 2011
Employment Watch Winter 2011 - Caste discrimination in the pipeline?
A Government commissioned report into the impact of caste discrimination in the UK by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has found that there is some evidence of discrimination against people of lower castes amongst British communities with roots in the Indian sub-continent.
2 February 2011
Employment Watch Winter 2011 - Cases before the courts in 2011
We are waiting for several court decisions that could significantly change our current interpretation of employment regulations. Questions before the courts that will be answered this year include:
27 January 2011
Radical shake-up of the employment tribunal system
It has been a long time coming but we now have the Coalition Government's blueprint for a radical shake up of the employment tribunal system. This is very much going to set the agenda for the lifetime of this Parliament, as far as employment reform is concerned.