Discipline & grievance

Saving a business time and money on an employee gross misconduct case

Nick Hobden recently advised a commercial client following the suspension of one of their employees who was accused of gross misconduct.

Acting for an employer in response to a religious discrimination claim

An employee of our client unsuccessfully applied for a vacancy in January 2016, which would have been a promotion for him.  In response he, a long standing employee, raised a number of complaints alleging that over a number of years he and other employees had been denied a promotion and workplace opportunities because of religion.

Acting for Pure Asphalt Company Ltd

The client, one of the leading mastic asphalt manufactures in the UK, contacted us in relation to a disgruntled senior manager who, through his solicitor, raised a meritless grievance accompanied by an invitation for the client to pay him to leave his employment.  In addition to this, he went off sick with stress.

Dismissing a difficult and obstructive employee

The conduct of an employee in certain circumstances can result in the irretrievable breakdown of the working relationship entitling an employer to terminate the contract of employment.

Workplace Law - November 2017

In the wake of a number of high profile allegations of sexual harassment we consider how to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace in this month’s Workplace Law. We also consider on going case law developments in respect of employment status and the risk assessment you need to perform for women who want to breastfeed at work.

Workplace Law - October 2017

The workplace as we know is ever evolving so make sure you are up to date with the latest issues in the workplace by reading this edition where we consider the ECJ ruling on discrimination for Greek police, previous incidents at work being considered in a misconduct dismissal and the taxation position of termination payments from April 2018.

Huge hike in compensation payments for hurt and upset employees

With effect from the 11 September 2017 there will be a very significant rise in compensation awards for injury to feelings or psychiatric injury in discrimination cases.