The limits of the ‘reasonable adjustments duty’

The question of how far employers are required to go in terms of making reasonable adjustments for disabled employees is often a difficult issue. The recent decision of the EAT in Lancaster v TBWA Manchester dealt with this issue in a redundancy context.

Fall in the number of Employment Tribunal claims

The Ministry of Justice has recently published the Annual Tribunals Statistics report for 2010/11 for the period 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011.

Legal representation at disciplinary hearings - an update

The Supreme Court has now given its judgment in the case G v The Governors of X School and, by a majority, overturned the Court of Appeal’s decision that an employee had the right to legal representation at a disciplinary hearing.

ACAS reports on its Code of Practice

The ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance procedures was revised in April 2009 following the repeal of the much criticised three step statutory dispute resolution procedures.

Religion and belief developments

Although the number of religion and belief claims brought in the Employment Tribunal is fairly low, as seen above, the cases generally attract a great deal of media interest.