National Minimum Wage

With Easter fast approaching, don’t forget that new rates of National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) are coming into force from 1 April 2024. They are… National Living Wage (21 and over): £11.44 per hour 18-20 rate: £8.60 per hour 16-17...

Disability Discrimination: Reasonable Adjustments

Did an employer make reasonable adjustments when it dismissed a disabled employee rather than placing him in an alternative role on a trial basis? No, held the Employment Appeal Tribunal  (EAT) in the recent case of Miller v Rentokil. The Claimant worked as a...

Health and Safety Dismissals

Was a tribunal entitled to conclude that there were two ‘principal’ reasons for dismissal in a claim for automatic unfair dismissal on health and safety grounds under section 100(1)(e) Employment Rights Act 1996? No, decided the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)...

Unfair Dismissal: Band of Reasonable Responses

Was an employment tribunal entitled to decide that a decision to dismiss an employee for posting a racist ‘joke’ on his employer’s intranet fell outside the band of reasonable responses? No, decided the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in the recent case of Vaultex v...

Employee Engagement and Change Management Program

Happy Saturday! Another really busy week has just come to an end. We are very excited at aiMac-hr to have been approached (this time by a rapidly expanding manufacturing company with UK and overseas markets) to lead their proposed employee engagement and change...

Agency Workers

Did an overarching agency agreement exist between an agency worker and a hirer, such that the agency worker was entitled to ‘suspension pay’ from the hirer during a nine-month period when she was not allowed to book shifts with them? No, decided the Employment Appeal...