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Can an Employer Be Liable for Discrimination Arising from Disability Where it Did Not Know the Employee's Misconduct Was Caused By Their Disability?
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The Court of Appeal ('CA') has recently upheld the Employment Appeal Tribunal's ('EAT') decision in City of York Council v Grosset and confirmed that a claim for discrimination arising from...
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards
VWV
Posted on: 29th May 2018
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Your annual financial health check

Every year around Easter - as the fiscal year comes to an end - we stop to take stock and look forward.It is a great time to take a deep breath and do our own annual financial health check. The...
Andrew Sutherland
Andrew Sutherland
Posted on: 2nd May 2018
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Travel Time Between Home and a Temporary Workplace Can Count Towards 'Working Time'
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The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Court has ruled that necessary time spent travelling to and/or from a location other than a fixed or habitual place of work to carry out a single assignment...
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards
VWV
Posted on: 30th April 2018
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To Bump or Not to Bump? A Redundancy Selection Question
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Does an employee need to ask their employer to be redeployed into another role and 'bump' a colleague into redundancy? Bumping occurs when an employee whose role is at risk of redundancy is moved...
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards
VWV
Posted on: 3rd April 2018
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