Legal news: Employment update

Katherine Pope rounds up the latest case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘The EAT made clear that a finding of a one-off act of discrimination does not mean that an associated injury-to-feelings award must fall within the lowest Vento band.’ Employee was fairly dismissed for proselytising To what extent can an employee …
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Detrimental Treatment: Court adopts new causal link test

Helena Davies examines the new ‘material influence’ formula applied by the Court of Appeal in a recent whistleblowing case ‘A detriment claim will succeed if the protected disclosure has influenced the employer’s treatment “more than trivially”, whereas a claim of automatic unfair dismissal will need to show that the disclosure was the reason, or principal …
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