Keenan and Riches’BUSINESS LAW

Impairment of long-term effect Schedule 1 applies and states that impairment is of long- term effect if it has lasted for 12 mon ...

Chapter 16Employing labour that the nature of the disability substantially affects the disabled person’s ability to perform the ...

Appeal note. The House of Lords reversed the above decision and ruled that where an employee has become disabled and is in dange ...

Chapter 16Employing labour The services of ACAS can also be invoked with a view to settlement without a tribunal hearing. There ...

regardless of service or hours worked. There are excep- tions in the case, for example, of maternity dismissals, health and safe ...

Chapter 16Employing labour There are other points worth noting following the attempts to reduce the number of applications to tr ...

Fixed-term contracts When a fixed-term contract expires and is not renewed, there is a dismissal. Under the provisions of the Em ...

Chapter 16Employing labour if it is within the range of reasonable responses an employer might make, even though the tribunal wo ...

Crime inside employmentwill normally justify a dis- missal on the ground of misconduct. For example, the EAT has decided that an ...

Chapter 16Employing labour to continue the employment, although there are safe- guards in the matter of unfair selection for red ...

them sets up home with the other’s wife. They are no longer on speaking terms and cannot work together. The employer has no othe ...

Chapter 16Employing labour has selected him because he is a member of a trade union or takes part in trade union activities, or ...

7 Health and safety dismissals and detriments.Desig- nated or acknowledged health and safety representatives must not be subject ...

Chapter 16Employing labour ment to working conditions might enable an employee or recruit to do the job satisfactorily. Remedies ...

2 Compensatory award (maximum: £63,000). This consists of: ■estimated loss of wages, net of tax and other deduc- tions to the da ...

Chapter 16Employing labour Redundancy The ERA 1996 gives an employee a right to compensa- tion by way of a redundancy payment if ...

Thus employer A makes widgets. There is a loss of orders and a diminution in the requirements of produc- tion. Therefore, anyone ...

Chapter 16Employing labour As regards time limits, the employee must make a written claim to the employer or to an employment tr ...

Complaints by employees in respect of the right to a redundancy payment or questions as to its amount may, as we have seen, be m ...

Chapter 16Employing labour ■Where the employer is proposing to dismiss 100 or more employees at one establishment within 90 days ...