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Buzoli v Food Partners unfair dismissal if ACAS code had not been followed?

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 13 2013

Under the Employment Rights Act, employment tribunals must have regard to the Acas Code on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures ('the Acas Code'

HMLR v McGlue compensation for injury to feelings discrimination

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 13 2013

In a discrimination claim, the tribunal may award compensation for injury to feelings. The tribunal is required to consider whether the unlawful act

Bancroft v Interserve dismissal for ‘some other substantial reason’ at the request of a third party

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 13 2013

In Bancroft v Interserve (Facilities Management) Ltd, an employer's customer exercised its contractual right to request the employer to remove one of

Davies v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council - unfair dismissal where there has been a prior final written warning

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 8 2013

In the recent case of Davies v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council the Court of Appeal considered how an employment tribunal should act in a case

Handshake Ltd v Summers - dismissal for 'some other substantial reason' does not include power struggle over contract terms

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 8 2013

Under the Employment Rights Act, a dismissal may be fair for 'some other substantial reason' and previous cases have shown that this may be the case

Confidentiality and your employees: who holds the trump card?

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 5 2013

The rights and restrictions relating to the use of information tend to pass us by in day-to-day life. We generally do not dwell on whether repeating

Indirect discrimination: protecting religious beliefs - what are employers required to do?

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 12 2013

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has given its decision in the cases of four British employees who complained that UK law did not give

Unfair dismissal: date of dismissal where appeal against dismissal is upheld but employee rejects re-engagement terms

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 12 2013

The EAT has recently considered the case of an employee who, when dismissed for misconduct, did two things - he filed a claim of unfair dismissal

Unfair dismissal: reductions in compensation

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 12 2013

In the recent case of Montracon Ltd v Hardcastle the EAT reviewed the two different ways in which compensation for unfair dismissal may be reduced

Strengthening the rights of employee inventors in China

  • Bird & Bird
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  • China
  • -
  • March 11 2013

The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and