Final Claims for Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme

Judges are entitled to robustly manage the cases that come before them, but what they cannot do is give even an impression that they are taking sides. In a case on point, an employment judge’s interventions during a hotly contested hearing were found to have crossed the line into apparent bias. Following a hearing, which was held via video link during the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment judge upheld an office administrator’s complaint of constructive unfair dismissal. The employer challenged…

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has rejected an appeal against the dismissal of an employee’s complaint that unauthorised deductions had been made from his wages because he did not receive an additional day’s pay or a day off in lieu when he worked on bank holidays. The employee’s contract of employment stated that he could be required to work on bank holidays, and that he would be paid at double time for those days and given an alternative day of leave in lieu. When he worked on a bank…

The pressure under which the UK’s legion of delivery drivers work is well known. As an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling showed, however, workers’ disabilities must never be ignored when assigning them a reasonable workload. A delivery driver who was disabled by learning difficulties, severe hearing impairment and dysarthria, a speech disorder, was dismissed following a report that he had been filmed throwing delivery boxes from the back of his lorry. On the day of the incident, he had been…