I have been writing about employment status since this blog started a number of years ago. One of the most widely reported cases dealing with the issue was published last week in Aslam, Farrar and others v Uber B.V., Uber London Limited and Uber Britannnia Limited. As most readers will know, Uber is a controversial…
Can a dismissal be implied by the failure of an agency employer to find work for an employee? This was a question considered by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in the recent case of Sandle v Adecco. The EAT concluded that in order to prove there had been a dismissal, an employer’s unequivocal intention to dismiss must have…
In the recent case of Brierly and ors v Asda Stores Ltd, a Tribunal has ruled that Asda store workers are able to compare themselves to distribution depot workers for equal pay purposes. The facts of this case are that a group of (mainly female) Asda employees who were employed on an ‘hourly rate’ basis,…