We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 148

Disability discrimination claims failed as interviewers were unaware of disability

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 3 2013

In the recent case of Patel v Lloyds Pharmacy Ltd UKEAT041812 Mr Patel was a pharmacist who had applied for the position of pharmacy manager with

Constructive dismissal

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 3 2013

We reported in February that the 2010 winner of The Apprentice, Stella English, had lodged a claim for constructive dismissal against Lord Sugar. In

Absence management & reasonable adjustments

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 27 2013

The issue of sickness absence is something that we are asked to advise on frequently. One particular issue which can cause difficulties for employers

European Court of Human Rights rules on religious discrimination in the workplace

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 16 2013

As has been widely reported in the media, the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") issued its judgement yesterday in Eweida and others v UK

Employers beware - secret recordings can be used in evidence

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 11 2013

In Vaughan v London Borough of Lewisham the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) debunked another employment law myth - that recordings which are made

Justifying a compulsory retirement age

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • European Union, Germany, United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 27 2011

The ECJ has issued an interesting judgement in the German case of Fuchs v Land Hessen

Supreme Court decision on the legal status of volunteers

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 9 2013

A recent Supreme Court decision has confirmed that volunteers do not enjoy the same rights as employees. The case, X v Mid-Sussex Citizens Advice

Employment status: substitution clauses

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 18 2009

The EAT ’s decision in Archer-Hoblin v MacGettigan has provided authority in relation to substitution clauses in a contractor's agreement

Accrued holidays

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 11 2010

The issue of holidays accruing during long terms sick leave has caused some concern for employers given recent Tribunal and Court decisions which indicate that holidays continue to accrue during long term sick leave and are not lost from one holiday year to the next

Data Protection Act requests during litigation

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 13 2010

An increasingly common tactic in employment disputes is for the employee to request access to their personal information from the employer under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "DPA"