by Anna Denton | May 9, 2014 | Articles, Comment
When I first qualified employers habitually gave detailed references about employees. Then came the case law where employers were challenged for negligent misrepresentation and the Data Protection Act allowed ex-employees to access references via the subject access...
by Anna Denton | Apr 1, 2014 | Comment, News
There is a lot of talk at the moment about ‘seismic shifts’ in employment law. First there was the introduction of tribunal fees last summer heralding a drastic reduction in claims, for ordinary claims (as opposed to multiple claims) reducing them by over...
by Anna Denton | Mar 18, 2014 | Articles, Comment, Unfair dismissal
A few months ago I gave some free advice to a friend’s husband who was facing a disciplinary investigation. Yesterday I got a message of thanks to say that he had been completely vindicated and that all disciplinary charges were going to be dropped. I was...
by Anna Denton | Mar 4, 2014 | Comment, Videos
A quick discussions about what we can do
by Anna Denton | Feb 20, 2014 | Comment, Discrimination
When delivering equality and diversity training I often get delegates to list out ways in which the workforce might be diverse and then to pick out which areas are covered by legislation. Inevitably this leads to the person with ginger-hair moaning that they...
by Anna Denton | Feb 12, 2014 | Articles, Comment, redundancies
I’ve been speaking to an employer who is finding making some staff redundant really difficult. This is an entirely normal response. Us lawyers who deal with redundancies all the time and probably sound a bit blase about it, could do with remembering that and...