Weekly Issue 663

Sick pay protection

On 12 March, the government published the Statutory Sick Pay (General)(Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations 2020 (...).

Take note

Although tribunals have a lot of discretion when deciding whether to allow proceedings to be recorded, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held in Heal v The Chancellor, Master and Scholars of the University of Oxford and ors said that claimants still have to show a complete or partial inability to take contemporaneous notes that would result in a substantial disadvantage to them (...).

Illegal contracting

If a contract of employment has been performed illegally, the employee cannot enforce any rights under it. In Robinson v Al Qasimi, however, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that they can enforce their rights (such as bringing an unfair dismissal claim) once the breach has been rectified (...).