Redundancy Redundancy is a form of being dismissed from a job and principally arises not because of any behaviour or inadequacy on the part of the employee (although these may be factors which employers will wish to take into consideration) but because of a business driven reason. Redundancy is potentially...

Employment Tribunals What is an Employment Tribunal? An Employment Tribunal is a judicial body whose role is to make decisions and judgments relating to employment rights in disputes between employers and employees where the dispute cannot be resolved internally. They are not as formal as other courts,...

Dismissal and disciplinary procedures Situations inevitably arise when an employer needs to take disciplinary action against an employee. When they do, it is vital, both from the point of view of efficient management as well because it is a requirement of the law, that businesses have written disciplinary...

Race discrimination Racial discrimination occurs where one person is treated less favourably than another person and the reason for that less favourable treatment is related to their colour, nationality or ethnic or national origins. What is racial discrimination? The Race Relations Act 1976 (as amended...

Sex discrimination Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it is unlawful for an employee to be treated differently from other employees where the reason for that different treatment relates to their sex, marital status or because they are undergoing, about to undergo or have undergone a gender reassignment....

Disability discrimination Figures issued by the UK’s Office for National Statistics’ in 2006 indicate that nearly one in five people of working age in Great Britain are disabled and that only about half of them are actually in work, compared with 80% of non disabled people of working age....

Unfair dismissal Dismissals can be both fair and unfair. Employment law legislation allows five reasons which are capable of justifying dismissal: Conduct Capability Redundancy A statutory requirement Some other substantial reason Legislation also provides numerous situations whereby a dismissal will...

Wrongful dismissal Wrongful dismissal arises where an employer has broken the contract of employment with the employee. Wrongful dismissal, which is based on contract law, should not be confused with unfair dismissal where the remedies are contained in legislation. The most common cause of wrongful...

Constructive dismissal Constructive dismissal arises where an employee is forced to resign because the conduct of the employer constitutes a fundamental breach of the contract of employment. For a Tribunal to decide that you have been constructively dismissed, your employer’s conduct must amount...

Age Discrimination As of the 1 October 2006, UK employees were given new rights not to be unfairly treated in the workplace on account of their age. This protection extends to all aspects of employment including job applications, promotion, pay and benefits, pensions and retirement. The regulations...