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Legal news: Employment update

Peter Summerfield rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers Employers should act with caution if they are contemplating dismissing an employee who has recently raised a health and safety matter. Vet’s assistant who raised Covid safety concerns was unfairly dismissed An employment tribunal has found that a veterinary assistant who raised concerns with …

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Employment status: Supreme Court reframes the approach for determining worker status in Uber case

Alan Lewis highlights the key points to come out of the Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision in Uber In the Supreme Court’s view, it would be inconsistent with the purpose of the legislation to treat the terms of a written contract as the starting point to decide whether an individual falls within the definition of a …

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Employment status: Continuation on a theme

Åsa Waring and Camilla Down examine the latest cases to consider the vexed issue of whether an individual is an employee, worker or self-employed ‘Judges will go through a painstaking process of weighing up the factors in light of ever-increasing case law, ultimately arriving at a fact-specific conclusion that will perhaps add little clarity to …

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Vicarious liability: Moving with the times

Andrew Sugarman and Megan Crowther consider the extent of employers’ liability for personal injury in this rapidly changing area ‘Employers need to realise that their responsibilities are probably wider than was previously thought, with vicarious liability for the wrongs of others stretching beyond the classic master/servant relationship and stretching into conduct that might not previously …

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