Data Breaches How scared should you be? The supermarket Morrison’s lost its appeal in a High Court Ruling and has been held as vicariously liable after one of its members of staff leaked the personal information of over 100,000 of its employees. “Vicarious liability...
Voluntary Overtime and Holiday Pay As we are in holiday season, we have been asked a number of times whether overtime payments should be taken into account when calculating holiday pay. Two recent cases indicate that employees who have been doing mandatory and...
What happens when a Sun Day is not a Sunday? With the recent sunshine and soaring temperatures in the UK sending sick leave figures into record highs other employers have made the decision to send employees home due to unreasonable working conditions as a result of...
The End of the GIG Economy? Pimlico Plumbers Ltd v Mr G Smith in the supreme court last month held that a plumber who worked under a contract describing him as self employed was, in fact, a worker and is now entitled to various employment law rights. The Case Mr Smith...
Witness Competency in Workplace Investigations Can we rely upon an elderly service user’s evidence accusing a Care Support Worker of theft (or abuse) when we know the service user is often confused and mistaken? In the normal course of HR, potential disciplinary...
GDPR—Weapon or Shield? GDPR has been in force less than a month and already the cracks are showing. With less than 35% of UK organisations thought to be ready, and despite the ICO stating “small businesses will not be punished for failing to be ready on time”, legal...
