Conciliation service ACAS has just published its annual report recording a rise in demand for early conciliation by over 20 per cent compared with the year before (...).
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held in Lozaique v Tesco Stores Ltd that just because a collective agreement is incorporated into an individual contract of employment, tribunals should not automatically assume that all terms are therefore incorporated. Instead, they need to consider whether each individual term of the agreement is apt for incorporation or not (...).
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held in Aston v The Martlet Group Ltd that ex-employees bringing a discrimination claim must be able to show not just that the discrimination arose out of the employment relationship but also that it was “closely” connected to it. As such, there must not be “too many links in the chain” (...).