Recent Blog Posts

22/02/2012: Tribunal Judges Sitting Alone in Unfair Dismissal Cases
20/02/2012: Court of Appeal confirms that hotel could not discriminate on basis of sexual orientation
17/02/2012: Bonuses paid as dividends from a subsidiary were subject to income tax as earnings
17/02/2012: Employee working abroad on rotational basis could bring unfair dismissal claim
16/02/2012: Unfair Dismissal - Qualifying Period

Blog Archive

February 2012
22/02/2012: Tribunal Judges Sitting Alone in Unfair Dismissal Cases
20/02/2012: Court of Appeal confirms that hotel could not discriminate on basis of sexual orientation
17/02/2012: Bonuses paid as dividends from a subsidiary were subject to income tax as earnings
17/02/2012: Employee working abroad on rotational basis could bring unfair dismissal claim
16/02/2012: Unfair Dismissal - Qualifying Period
15/02/2012: Daily rest denied daily over a period: time limits run from each denial
13/02/2012: Auto - enrolment pensions: revisions to start dates and contribution rates
09/02/2012: Unfair Dismissal - Territorial Jurisdiction
07/02/2012: Employment Status
06/02/2012: Springboard injunctions: identifying unlawful activities and protection for the employer
03/02/2012: Use of successive fixed-term contracts to cover for permanent employees on family leave
02/02/2012: Fixed Share Partner Not an Employee
January 2012
31/01/2012: Collective redundancies: each Woolworth store was an establishment
27/01/2012: Reasonable adjustments: PCP need not apply to the claimant
26/01/2012: Enforcement of judgments
26/01/2012: Employee pension scheme - are you prepared?
25/01/2012: University sponsorship contract was not a contract of employment
24/01/2012: Break Clauses - Beware
23/01/2012: New two year qualifying period
20/01/2012: Advocate General gives opinion on burden of proof in discrimination
18/01/2012: Adjournment for unwell party
16/01/2012: Employers to terminate temporary workers contracts early
13/01/2012: Tribunal statistics published for July to December 2011
11/01/2012: Preparing to compete: the duty of fidelity and fiduciary duties
09/01/2012: Compromise agreements: limited scope of employer's indemnity of employee
05/01/2012: Charity Commission Investigation
03/01/2012: Fiduciary Duties and Confidentiality
December 2011
23/12/2011: Court of Appeal confirms that ministers may be employees
21/12/2011: New compensation limits in force from 1 February 2012
19/12/2011: TUPE and administration: pre-transfer dismissal automatically unfair even though no transferee ident

Reasonable adjustments: PCP need not apply to the claimant

27 January 2012

The Employment Appeal Tribunal ("EAT") has confirmed a seemingly obvious point, that a claimant may be put at a substantial disadvantage by a provision, criterion or practice, even though they are not required to comply with it. (Roberts v North West Ambulance Service UKEAT/0085.)