Weekly Issue 635

Implausible data

Although all relevant organisations have now reported their gender pay gap for 2019, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is now investigating those which submitted “implausible data”. (...)

No breach of rights

The Court of Appeal has held in MacKenzie v The Chancellor, Masters & Scholars of the University of Cambridge that the remedy for non-compliance with a tribunal order for re-engagement is compensation. As there is no right to be re-engaged as such, claimants cannot bring a claim arguing that it has been breached. (...)

Genuine misunderstanding

Tribunal claims usually have to be presented within three months less one day of the effective date of dismissal. In Lowri Beck Services Ltd v Brophy, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that it had not been reasonably practicable for the claimant to lodge his unfair and wrongful dismissal claim on time as he had genuinely misunderstood the date when he was dismissed. (...)