Last month I reported on the plans by HMRC to remove self-employed status from fixed-share partners in limited liability partnerships or LLPs, a business structure frequently used by accountants and solicitors. The issue has become very pressing for those affected since it now seems very likely that the rule changes will come into effect this…
Last October Joshua Rozenberg reported in The Guardian that a recent case concerning Moroccan workers in diplomatic missions in London resulted in failed claims for unfair dismissal, unpaid wages and breaches of the Working Time Regulations because the employers were able to claim state immunity. I commented about the case last November. It has now…
Does it matter by whom potentially discriminatory comments are made? In the context of race discrimination, whether words are discriminatory has for some time involved consideration of who said them. In particular, self-referencing use of obviously abusive and discriminatory terms has become commonplace in the music industry and elsewhere. One argument put forward is that…
What should a school do if its caretaker is accused of historical child abuse? In Z v A the President of the Employment Appeals Tribunal considered whether dismissal of the employee for “some other substantial reason” was justified in light of the allegations. The Police reported to the school that historical allegations of sex abuse…