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The Range of Reasonable Responses Podcast
Author Archives: Darren Newman
The Classic Employment Law Songbook
Over the past year I’ve been recording a series of podcasts looking at classic employment law cases and seeing what relevance they have today. I try to put each into its historical and legal perspective and one part of that … Continue reading
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What is the point of Unfair Dismissal?
On Monday I read a story that utterly depressed me. The BBC reported the case of Rachel Burns who was dismissed by Surrey County Council from her job in a care home for posting pictures on Facebook that included a … Continue reading
How Uber could win in the Employment Appeal Tribunal
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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Tagged Employment Appeal Tribunal, uber, workers
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How much does it cost to defend an ET claim?
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
Posted in Employment Tribunals, Uncategorized
Tagged costs, defending an ET claim, IEA, legal fees, Mark Littlewood
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Employment Tribunal fees have been abolished
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
Supreme Court ready to rule on Tribunal fees
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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Tagged access to justice, fees, indirect discrimination, supreme court
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What about the dependent contractors?
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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