Litigation: Five reasons why your employment tribunal spend might increase next year

A cluster of recent cases and developments is likely to mean rising costs for employers faced with a tribunal claim, warn Phil Allen and Louise Singh ‘Employers are starting to see a renewed flow of the types of claim that had largely fallen away under the fee regime.’ After a few years in the wilderness, …
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Injury To Feelings: Court of Appeal rules that employment tribunals should increase discrimination awards

Phil Allen looks at a recent Court of Appeal decision and why it means there will be increases to discrimination awards in employment tribunals ‘While the largest component of most discrimination awards will remain the (uncapped) lost earnings, the increase in injury to feelings figures will mean that the employer’s potential exposure and the cost …
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Legal News: Employment update

Bradley Houlston rounds up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘Employers should be mindful that refusing access to relevant documents, even in response to a subject access request, could affect the fairness of a dismissal.’ Refusal to respond to a SAR contributed to unfair dismissal In McWilliams v Citibank NA [2016], …
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Legal News: Employment update

Jo Broadbent rounds up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘The future of the “dual discrimination” provisions in the Equality Act 2010 that have not been brought into force apparently remains under consideration.’ Bans on religious symbols in the workplace – direct or indirect discrimination? Bougnaoui v Micropole SA [2016] concerns …
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