McIlveen on Employment- November 2024









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 “One day or day one. You decide.”
Paulo Coelho

 
NI EMPLOYMENT STORIES IN THE NEWS THIS MONTH
⚖️ Car Dealership manager who used position to defraud company and colleagues jailed for nine months.

⚖️PSNI disciplines 74 officers who viewed bodycam footage ‘for entertainment’.

⚖️Former Belfast solicitor is spared jail after admitting to defrauding clients by overcharging of fees and failing to pay charitable donations contained within client wills.

⚖️ Belfast restaurant terminates a policy that deducted staff fines from tips following a discussion with Unite

⚖️County Antrim solicitor receives suspended sentence following a conviction for defrauding clients of £85k in a bid to keep business afloat after the property crash.

⚖️Leaked video from local McDonald’s shows self-employed Uber Eats drivers being managed like employees and raising complaints of cultural bias.

⚖️Senior former PSNI officer under investigation for allegedly sharing confidential information.

⚖️Treasurer admits to defrauding NI church of more than half a million pounds.

⚖️ Expelled member of the Alliance Party seeks £20k in discrimination damages over unsuccessful attempt to be election candidate.
 

FORMER NI EXAM BOARD EXECUTIVE SETTLES DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT AND BULLYING CASE FOR £100K 

To read about the case click HERE

Picture Credit: BBC News

EQUALITY COMMISSION ASSISTS NORTHERN IRISH WOMAN IN £45K SEXUAL HARASSMENT SETTLEMENT AGAINST TESCO

To read about the case click HERE

Picture Credit: BBC News

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HIGH COURT HAS NO JURISDICTION TO HEAR COUNTY COURT DISCRIMINATION CLAIM; CORRECT COURSE OF APPLICATION FOR OPINION IN COURT OF APPEAL ALSO OUT OF TIME

To read the decision click HERE
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HAULIER’S DEFAMATION CLAIM CONCERNING REPORTING OF MIGRANT DEATHS IN A CONTAINER LORRY ARE STRUCK OUT BY HIGH COURT

To read the new story click HERE
To read the decision click HERE
Picture Credit: Belfast Telegraph

BROADCASTER SKY FOUND TO BE ACTING IN BAD FAITH FOR APPLYING FOR TRADE MARKS FOR SERVICES THAT IT NEVER INTENDED TO PROVIDE

To read the press summary click HERE
To read the full decision click HERE
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LANCASHIRE POLICE FOUND TO HAVE DIRECTLY DISCRIMINATED, VICTIMISED,  AND FAILED TO MAKE REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS FOR OFFICER DISABLED AS A RESULT OF PTSD

To read the full decision click HERE
To read the news story click HERE
 

Picture Credit: BBC News

TRAINEE OPTICIAN SUCCEEDS IN PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION CLAIM AFTER BEING DISMISSED WHILST TAKING TIME OFF TO DEAL WITH MISCARRIAGE
 

To read the decision click HERE
Picture Credit: MSN.com

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT PUBLISHES OVERVIEW OF THE WORKER PROTECTION ACT: THE DUTY TO PROTECT EMPLOYEES FROM SEXUAL HARASSMENT

To read the overview from peoplemanagement.co.uk click HERE
 

NHS ENGLAND ISSUES NEW FRAMEWORK FOR STAFF TO ANONYMOUSLY REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AT WORK

To read the overview from peoplemanagement.co.uk click HERE
 

SURGEON ABLE TO RETURN TO WORK FOLLOWIING SUSPENSION FOR MAKING SEXUAL JOKES THAT HE USED TO ‘FLATTEN THE HIERARCHY’ 

To read the MpTS decision click HERE
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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL TO PUBLISH DECISIONS ONLINE

To read the full details click HERE

Picture Credit: IrishLegal.com

DONEGAL HOTEL ORDERED TO PAY €5K TO A TRAVELLER FIRST REFUSED ACCOMMODATION BUT LATER ACCEPTED WHEN BOOKING WAS MADE USING PSYDONYM

To read the full  decision click HERE

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MENTAL HEATH CHARITY ORDERED TO PAY €7K TO DYSLEXIC EMPLOYEE FOR NOT MAKING MAKING THE ADJUSTMENT OF PROVIDING A GRAMMAR AND SPELLING APP

To read the full  decision click HERE

Picture Credit: Jigsaw.ie

NEW BILL PASSED TO ALLOW WOMEN TO DEFER MATERNITY LEAVE WHEN EXPERIENCING SERIOUS ILLNESS

To read the full story click HERE

Picture Credit: Irish Independent

FASHION BUYER, DISMISSED WHILST AWAITING RENEWAL OF HER WORK VISA SUCEEDS IN UNFAIR DISMISSAL CLAIM

To read the full decision click HERE

Picture Credit: RTE.ie

BANK OF ENGLAND ECHOES MAJOR RETAILERS’ CONCERNS OF JOB CUTS IN LIGHT OF RISING NATIONAL INSURANCE COSTS

To read the news report click HERE

Picture Credit: BBC News

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EQUALITY COMMISSION PUBLISHES EQUALITY ACT GUIDANCE FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK

To read the technical guidance click HERE

NEW RESEARCH FROM PREGNANT THEN SCREWED ON THE RISING COSTS OF CHILDCARE

To read the findings click HERE

⚖️Pre-termination, ‘protected converstation’ negotiations between Claimant and Respondent deemed inadmissible in unfair dismissal claim finds EAT.

⚖️EAT finds that Black Cab driving claimant who used a cab ordering app was not a worker when he tried to make a protected disclosure claim.

⚖️Solicitor succeeds in unfair dismissal claim concerning a complaint of sexual assault when CCTV showed the incident to be ‘consensual’ and complainant had lied to ‘protect her interest’. 

⚖️“Lawless and dysfunctional” workplace was not considered in unfair dismissal of driver found to have used offensive language against a colleague, Judge finds: “the free for all in the office suggested the claimant was the one who was without a chair when the music stopped”.

⚖️ Disney agrees to settle equal pay class action six months before the case was due to  be heard in the US. 

⚖️Manchester City FC owe most of £11m unpaid wages claim deducted from a player whilst he was on rape and sexual assault charges of which he was later acquitted.

⚖️Bridgend Hospital seeks to recover £95k in wages from nurse who lied about her qualifications and experience.
 

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