Kate Coppack
Dismissal for refusing to wear face mask can be fair
Over the past year, face masks have become an ordinary part of life and it was only a matter of time before they became the focus of a workplace dispute. In the first such dispute to reach a tribunal, Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd (ET/3201960/2020), an employment tribunal found that a lorry driver was dismissed fairly for his refusal to wear a face mask on a client's premises.
Taking Modern Slavery Seriously
Heard it on the radio: discriminatory statements fall within EU’s Equal Treatment Directive
Supreme Court gives NHS trust permission to appeal voluntary overtime and holiday pay ruling
Support for apprentices in England
Right to work rules for small business
Employee shareholders – is a new contract enough to make them an ordinary employee?
Employee shareholders have always been rare beasts and may be rarer still if a contractual update meant they became ordinary […]