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  • Should a tribunal take into account what an individual can do when assessing whether they are disabled?
    Aug 30 2025

    The EAT was asked to consider whether a tribunal had wrongly focused on what a claimant with ASD and ADHD could do, rather than had difficulties in doing, and also the bearing of his clinical neurodiversity diagnosis, when determining whether the claimant was disabled. Listen along to find out what happened!


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    4 min
  • Is the time limit to bring an unfair dismissal claim extended by any pre-termination early conciliation?
    Aug 30 2025

    The employee in this case commenced early conciliation before her employment ended and, when her unfair dismissal claim was found to have been issued out of time, argued that the time limit should be extended by the early conciliation that occurred pre- as well as post-termination. Listen along to find out what happened!


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    3 min
  • Do employers have a duty to make adjustments which have no reasonable prospect of succeeding?
    Aug 30 2025

    An ambulance driver didn’t want to return to work during the pandemic due to anxiety about catching Covid-19 and his request for a higher than national guidance-grade facemask was rejected as being unlikely to ease these concerns. The driver was eventually dismissed and brought claims including for failure to make reasonable adjustments in relation to the facemask. Listen along to find out what happened!


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    3 min
  • What consideration should be given to a party’s ability to pay when making a costs award?
    Aug 30 2025

    The EAT in this case was asked to determine what consideration a tribunal may give to a party’s ability to pay when deciding on a costs award, especially when the party’s integrity was called into question. Listen along to find out what happened!


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    4 min
  • Is personal data held on a personnel file processed if it is disclosed orally?
    Aug 29 2025

    In this case, an employee brought data protection claims against her employer when her emergency contact phone number was disclosed to a third party over the telephone. Listen along to find out what happened


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    3 min
  • Were self-employed drivers with contracts containing a right of substitution actually workers?
    Aug 29 2025

    A group of purportedly self-employed drivers, whose contracts contained a right of substitution that had never been relied on, asked the EAT to consider whether they were, in fact, workers entitled to holiday pay and the national minimum wage. Listen along to find out what happened!


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    3 min
  • Was it age discrimination to take into account professional qualifications in a redundancy exercise?
    Jul 18 2025

    An employment tribunal has recently heard a case in which an older employee argued that he had been discriminated against in a redundancy process because a factor taken into consideration was whether he had a professional qualification. The employee argued that as he was older, he was less likely to have a degree than his younger colleagues. Listen along to find out what happened!


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    3 min
  • Competition and Markets Authority investigate wage-fixing cartel
    Jul 18 2025

    The Competition and Markets Authority has recently investigated a number of well-known media companies which were accused of being part of a wage-fixing cartel. Listen along to find out what happened!


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    3 min