Having received your job offer the successful applicant is unhappy about the starting salary. The person they speak to verbally assures them that they’ll be “entitled to automatic pay rises”. Are you
obliged to honour this promise?
Published 07.10.2014
During a period of maternity leave, a woman has the right to be notified of any internal job vacancy; even if she lacks the required skills or won’t be interested in it. But what if there’s a genuine
error and she’s missed out of the loop?
Published 19.10.2010
In order to carry out their work, many employees have to travel from one location to another, e.g. to visit clients or attend meetings. Are you required to pay them during this travelling time or
not?
Published 29.01.2014
An employer demanded that an employee repay £20,000 after it discovered that she had been overpaid for more than ten years. When an historic overpayment is spotted, can you make an automatic
deduction from the employee’s salary?
Published 26.10.2020
Identifying when a “mental impairment” becomes a “protected disability” isn’t easy. So what can we learn from a ruling by the Employment Appeal Tribunal?
Published 10.08.2010
In a recent case, a tribunal said that an employee who was overpaid by mistake for three years can keep all the money and her erroneous pay rise. So what happened and how did her employer get it so
wrong?
Published 08.07.2009
Making reasonable adjustments can be tricky. But what happens if you haven’t been told, or it’s not otherwise obvious, that a particular employee is disabled? Could you come unstuck in tribunal over
this?
Published 21.09.2011
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that an employee who submitted a tribunal claim six years late must be allowed to proceed with it. Does this decision open the floodgates to other historic
claims?
Published 29.06.2015
In a recent case the employer ignored an employee who had volunteered for redundancy and made another person compulsorily redundant instead. Its decision was ruled to be unfair. Does that mean you
must always accept volunteers?
Published 11.02.2014
Last month, for whatever reason, you were late in processing payroll data. This meant that staff received their pay a week late. Some of them are very unhappy and demanding compensation. Do you have
to pay it?
Published 28.06.2008