Author Archives: Darren Newman
Facebook, Gay Marriage and Religion (but that’s not the interesting bit)
Employers often worry about the negative publicity associated with an Employment Tribunal case – often needlessly. It is unlikely that the nation’s press will choose to highlight a failure to follow a fair disciplinary procedure, or a redundancy decision where … Continue reading
How much for doing the ‘honourable’ thing?
In most cases an employee who resigns doesn’t get any sort of pay off at all. You give notice (or not) and when the notice ends the most you can expect to receive is pay for holiday accrued but not … Continue reading
Rights for shares: Responding to the Consultation
Well so far the Chancellor’s new wheeze of letting employees sign away key employment rights in return for some shares in their employer’s business shows no sign of going away. A consultation has been published by BIS and Clause 23 … Continue reading
Trading rights for shares – the latest big idea
So the latest Government proposal on employment law is to create a brand-new employment status of ‘owner-employee’ – someone who has fewer employment rights than other employees but who has been given a bunch of shares to make up for … Continue reading
The Case of the Generous McFlurry
Ask most normal people whether an employee should be sacked for one incident in which she put slightly too many sprinkles on a McFlurry and the most common answer will surely be ‘of course not’. It seems obvious that a … Continue reading
Boris and the Ballot: why call for tougher strike laws?
The nation’s favourite Tory, Boris Johnson has called for tougher strike laws. In his Mail on Sunday interview Boris sets out an 8-point plan. It differs from other employment law proposals I’ve seen in that it has been prepared by … Continue reading
Guilty until proven innocent?
Today’s outrage against objectivity and rational analysis is brought to you courtesy of the founder and Director of Civitas, an independent ‘think tank’. David G Green has written an article in the Telegraph giving a pithy critique of the Equality … Continue reading
It’s not about banning crosses!
I’m not going to try to go through all of the media reporting surrounding the religious discrimination cases currently being heard by the European Court of Human Rights and correct the errors and misconceptions that abound. What would be the … Continue reading
Update: Dominic Raab’s Reply
Yesterday I wrote to Dominic Raab MP about the current debate on ‘no fault’ dismissals. I quoted a paper he wrote late last year where he made some pretty suprising claims about the current state of the law on dismissals … Continue reading
