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Round-up of UK employment law developments in April 2013

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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May 9 2013

Employers may need to distance themselves from discriminatory remarks made by shareholders who are closely connected to or wield influence over the

Employees can claim constructive dismissal even if employer upholds grievance

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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March 8 2010

An employer who has committed a fundamental breach of an employee's contract cannot prevent the employee claiming constructive dismissal by upholding the employee's grievance about that breach

Employees abroad: extension to unfair dismissal and discrimination rights

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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August 9 2010

Recent cases have extended the availability of British employment law rights to employees working overseas

Sex discrimination: women protected between IVF egg collection and implantation

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 6 2010

Employers must not discriminate against an employee because she is undergoing IVF, but only in relation to the period between egg collection and implantation of the fresh embryos

Disability discrimination: limits on reasonable adjustments

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 5 2011

An employer is only required to make reasonable adjustments to enable a disabled employee to remain in employment, not to enable them to leave on advantageous terms

Compensation: career-long loss and apportionment of discrimination damages

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 7 2011

In most cases, future loss of earnings should only be awarded until an employee is likely to obtain an equivalent job; career-long compensation will only be appropriate where there is no real prospect of the employee ever securing an equivalent job

Round-up of employment law developments in November 2011

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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December 5 2011

Employment law reforms: April 2012 government plans confirmed, new proposals and calls for evidence

Compromise agreements: public sector employer's payment of more than potential litigation award not ultra vires

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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August 9 2010

Overturning a High Court ruling, the Court of Appeal has decided that an NHS Trust's termination payment was not ultra vires even though it exceeded the maximum the employee could be awarded had she gone to tribunal

Unfair dismissal: importance of warnings, dismissal for relationship breakdown and home computer use

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 5 2011

Employers should consider whether there are any serious concerns about the appropriateness of a live, final disciplinary warning before relying on it to dismiss for subsequent misconduct

Multiple discrimination: indirect discrimination on combined grounds of sex and race unlawful

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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United Kingdom
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December 4 2009

A policy which indirectly discriminates on combined grounds of sex and race is unlawful, even where it would not be unlawful on either ground alone, according to the EAT

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