An office manager who called her manager and another director ‘dickheads’ during a meeting was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has ruled. The post Manager who called bosses ‘dickheads’ was unfairly dismissed appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Sandie Peggie has launched fresh legal action in the employment tribunal against NHS Fife and three senior managers. The post Sandie Peggie launches fresh legal action against NHS Fife appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
A director at Specsavers has been suspended by the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service for wrongfully claiming almost £80,000 in expenses. The post Ex-Specsavers director suspended over wrongful expense claims of £77k appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
NDA ban: there could be unintended consequences that are mostly to the detriment of whistleblowers and those who have been harassed.| Personnel Today
A bus worker who called his female manager a ‘bint’ has lost his case for unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal.| Personnel Today
City whistleblower: a former compliance officer has won more than £500,000 in compensation after he was fired for his disclosures.| Personnel Today
A former HSBC employee has lost his claims for race discrimination and unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal.| Personnel Today
For some years now, policy debate around reform of the employment tribunal (ET) system has been befuddled by confusion – some of it inadvertent, some of it wilful and malevolent – about whether the system’s workload should be measured in terms of the number of claims, or the number of cases – which includes the relatively […]| Hard Labour
Warning: This post contains selected statistics, taken in isolation and out of context (© S Vara) I have already written here about how yesterday’s latest set of quarterly tribunal statistics has cast yet more doubt over whether we humans will ever solve the Hancock Theorem, the last great unsolved mathematical puzzle of our time. But that post […]| Hard Labour
Warning: This post contains selected statistics, taken in isolation and out of context (© S Vara) So, today the Ministry of Injustice has coughed up another set of quarterly tribunal statistics – this one covering July to September 2015 (Q2 of 2015-16) – and we can hammer a few more nails into the coffin of that […]| Hard Labour
If you were travelling to work on the 159 bus yesterday morning, and the peace of your journey was ruined by a lot of swearing, moaning and face-palming by a clearly disturbed man in the front seat, then I apologise. Yes, that was me. And I was reading my print-out of the Hansard of Tuesday […]| Hard Labour
Last weekend, as Mrs Wonky and I walked to the bus stop together – not something that happens very often – conversation turned to the abolition of the paper tax disc. We know how to live, do we Wonkies. How the ****, Mrs Wonky wanted to know, do the wardens know who to clamp these […]| Hard Labour
We should perhaps take encouragement from the fact that, on the same day it published the transcript of its oral evidence session on the impact of the Coalition’s disastrous employment tribunal fees, the Conservative-majority Justice Committee of MPs also published a scathing report calling on ministers to scrap the Coalition’s disastrous criminal court charge. However, […]| Hard Labour