Today, 10 October 2021, is World Mental Health Day. In this article, Hannah Lynn explores what employees can do if their mental health is suffering, the right to reasonable adjustments and what employers can do to offer support and help remove the stigma surrounding mental health.
We are pleased to announce that we have again been ranked as a top tier firm by Legal 500 for 2022.
The Government has published a consultation seeking views on proposals to expand and improve the flexible working framework. In this briefing, we look at the proposals for reform, as well as the changes that the Government has declined to take forward.
An employer’s refusal to allow an employee to make modest adjustments to her working hours following her return from maternity leave has been held to be indirect sex discrimination. An Employment Tribunal awarded the employee £185,000.
In the recent case of Shipp v City Sprint UK Limited an Employment Tribunal unanimously held that a senior employee was unfairly dismissed, harassed and discriminated against on the grounds of maternity/pregnancy and sex.
In the recent case of Gwynedd Council v Barratt the Court of Appeal confirmed that, on its own, the absence of a right to appeal against dismissal for redundancy does not make it unfair. However, it is one of the factors to be considered when determining the overall fairness of the dismissal.
In the first of two articles, BDBF’s Melvyna Mumunie reports on the joint FCA, PRA and BoE Discussion Paper that aims to speed up the pace of meaningful change in diversity and inclusion in the financial services sector
BDBF is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Rebecca Rubin. Rebecca is the third associate to join the team at BDBF this year, following the recent arrival of James Hockley and Theo Nicou.
It has been some time coming but, finally, the legislators seem to be taking the issue of menopause and the impact it has on some women’s professional lives seriously.
Make sure you are top of the HR class by reading BDBF’s updated 2021 employment law tracker. The tracker will bring you up to date on all the key pieces of UK and EU employment legislation on the horizon, as well as relevant Government consultations.
In Fallahi v TWI Limited, the EAT held that in performance dismissal cases, Tribunals may only look behind final written warnings where they are “manifestly inappropriate”.
An Employment Tribunal has recently decided that the dismissal of two senior male employees amounted to sex discrimination, where the dismissals had followed the announcement of the employer’s gender pay gap figures and a radical new approach to diversity within the business.
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