McIlveen on Employment- April 2024

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“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

Steve Furtick

⚖️ Dyslexic claimant awarded £12k injury to feelings for Respondent’s failure to make reasonable adjustments in the recruitment and selection process.

⚖️Digital marketing executive was not wrongfully dismissed but IS awarded £18k concerning sex discrimination claim.

⚖️Tribunal finds claimant’s continuity of service supports statutory redundancy award of £12.5k.

⚖️ Harrassment on the grounds of sex found for waitress whilst working at restaurant in NI.

ALSO IN THE NEWS

⚖️Judicial Studies Board publishes new Guidelines for Assessment of Damages for Personal Injury Cases in NI.

⚖️Economy Minister announces annual increase in limits for unfair dismissal and redundancy payments

⚖️Education Minister, Paul Givan, confirms that the lack of childcare provision in NI is a top priority

⚖️Newry Mourne & District Council fined £50k for health and safety failings in relation to the death of electrical engineer during storm.

⚖️NI’s unpaid carers risk ‘being left behind’ new carer’s leave law.

⚖️Investigation launched after video circulates of NI school teacher swearing at pupil

EQUALITY COMMISSION PUBLISHES NEW GUIDANCE ON TEACHER RECRUITMENT WITH IMPORTANT CHANGES ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND POLITICAL OPINION

To download the guidance click HERE

EX-PSNI OFFICER’S JR APPLICATION IS DENIED CONCERNING DECISION OF NI POLICE APPEALS TRIBUNAL WHICH UPHELD HIS DISMISSAL

To read the decision click HERE

Picutre Credit: BBC.co.uk

EQUALITY COMMISSION MARKS AUTISM AWARENESS WEEK

To read the Equality Commission Blog click HERE
To download the guide for employing people with autism click HERE

EAT UHPOLDS TRIBUNAL DECISION OF FINDING NO RACE DISCRIMINATION DESPITE FAILING TO APPLY REVERSE BURDEN OF PROOF

To read the Court of Appeal decision click HERE

Picture Credit: Drapers Online

TRIBUNAL REJECTS RASCISM CLAIM BUT FINDS THAT FORMER BEAUTY PAGEANT WINNER BEING DESCRIBED AS GLAMOUROUS AT WORK WAS ‘UNDERMINING AND BELITTLING’

To read the decision click HERE

Picture Credit: The Times

UNFAIRLY DISMISSED CHELSEA F.C GROUNDSMAN DENIED COMPENSATION DUE TO SENDING 1500 ANONYMOUS EMAILS SAYING THE CLUB ENDORSED BULLYING

To read the full decision click HERE

Picture Credit: The Telegraph

LRA PUBLISHES NEW GUIDANCE ON ELIMINATING SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

To download a copy of the guidance click HERE

TWO NI FIRE-FIGHTERS DISMISSED AMIDST WIDER CLAIM OF INCREASED STAFF ABSENCES DUE TO ‘HARASSMENT AND BULLYING’ AT PORTADOWN STATION

To read the full story click HERE

Picture Credit: Belfast Telegraph

NEW STATUTORY PAYMENT RATES FOR 2024-2025

To view the new rates click HERE

To read the NMW Report click HERE

SUMMARY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BILL AND LINKS TO DISMISSAL BASED ON DEEP FAKE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

To read the summary click HERE

Picture Credit: TUC.org.uk

INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP SEMINAR 11TH JUNE 2024

TESCO ANNOUNCES PAY RISE ABOVE THE LIVING WAGE

To read the full story click HERE

Picture Credit: Personnel Today

⚖️EAT finds tribunal was entitled to strike out claim when the Claimant destroyed evidence and a fair hearing was no longer possible.

⚖️Prime Ministers sets out plan to tackle ‘sick note culture’

⚖️Supreme Court make declaration of incompatibility in relation to finding that S146 of Trade Union Legislation did not provide protection for a detriment short of dismissal for employee taking part in industrial action

⚖️Tribunal nears end for man who lost job offer over views on homosexuality.

⚖️EAT upholds tribunal decision that a paediatrician’s whistleblowing detriment claim failed because the employer had not subjected her to detriments on the ground she had made a protected disclosure.

⚖️Meal allowances may be included in the calculation of statutory holiday pay for cabin crew determines EAT.

⚖️EAT finds it reasonably arguable that a tribunal had jurisdiction to consider claims against a US based Respondent who did not employ the Claimant, based on wider meaning of employment and agency.

⚖️Supermarket worker loses claim of unfair dismissal for gross misconduct after taking unpaid for ‘bags for life’.

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