Author Archives: Darren Newman

About Darren Newman

Employment law consultant, trainer, writer and anorak

How Uber could win in the Employment Appeal Tribunal

Posted on September 28, 2017

I spent yesterday sitting in the public gallery of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (if you can call five rows of seats the back of a big room a ‘gallery’) listening to Dinah Rose QC argue that the Employment Tribunal was … Continue reading →

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How much does it cost to defend an ET claim?

Posted on August 31, 2017

Mark Littlewood is the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs and yesterday he wrote an article in the Times attacking the HR profession for creating a ‘risk-averse, unimaginative and insipid working environment’. I’ll leave it to others to defend … Continue reading →

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Employment Tribunal fees have been abolished

Posted on July 26, 2017

Blimey. I now wish that, when I wrote yesterday’s post on the imminent  Supreme Court ET fees decision, I had sounded rather more confident. Frankly, though, I found it difficult to believe that the Court would really be so bold as … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court ready to rule on Tribunal fees

Posted on July 25, 2017

This is a post with a very short shelf life. By Wednesday afternoon it will be irrelevant. On Wednesday morning the Supreme Court will give its decision in the Judicial Review proceedings challenging the legality of the Employment Tribunal fee … Continue reading →

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What about the dependent contractors?

Posted on July 11, 2017

There is much to mull over in the Taylor ‘Good Work’ Review. It proposes some significant changes to employment law that deserve serious consideration. I set out a whole list of them here. But a lot of attention is being … Continue reading →

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The Taylor Review – the good, the bad and and the cosmetic

Posted on July 11, 2017

It’s easy to pick holes in any substantial piece of work – which is great news for people like me. There is, therefore, plenty in the Taylor Review ‘Good Work’ Report (as it now seems to be called) that I … Continue reading →

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Employment Status – in praise of fuzziness

Posted on June 30, 2017

As we await the publication of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, one issue that is being discussed is whether the definitions of employee and worker need to be simplified and/or clarified. There is a general feeling that that … Continue reading →

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