Employment

  • Stress: The Importance

    David Marshall, Partner
    Managing Partner - December/January 2010
    Claims for workplace intimidation and harassment were among those expected to increase as the economic downturn impacted on everyone's workload. Law firm HR policies could usefully include information about effective time and stress management...

  • Update on Developments in Employment Law

    Mark Cornish, Partner
    Mark reviews the latest developments in Employment Law following the Equality Bill 2009, the contents of which are intended to come into effect in Spring 2010...

  • Tracing the Faultline

    David Marshall, Partner
    Solicitors Journal - 6 October 2009
    David reviews how the courts determine causation and calculate compensation in stress at work claims...

  • Wound Up

    David Marshall, Partner
    Solicitors Journal, 21 April 2009
    With stress at work claims on the rise, practitioners need to consider the preparatory work required to win them, says David Marshall...

  • Stressing the Issue

    David Marshall, Partner
    Solicitors Journal, 21 April 2009
    David Marshall considers the calculation of damages in occupational stress claims...

  • Introduction of new Age Discrimination Regulations

    As you may be aware the law relating to discrimination is about to change to provide protection to employees who claim to have been discriminated against on grounds of their age. The new laws, which are due to come into effect on 1 October 2006, will follow...

  • PI and Employment Claims

    David Marshall, Partner Traps for the Unwary: Part 1 Increasing numbers of claims for "non-physical injury" arising out of employment have led to an overlap in the law and remedies provided by the Courts and the Employment Tribunals. Whilst...

  • PI and Employment Claims

    David Marshall, Partner Traps for the Unwary: Part 2 In Part 1 of this Article, I set out a hypothetical case study in which a claimant was wrongfully and unfairly dismissed, was the victim of sex and race discrimination at work, and was suffering a...

  • Bonuses and an Employer's Discretion

    Mark Cornish, Partner
    Contractual bonuses for amounts often far in excess of basic salary have been widely used to incentivise employees in the City for some time. But in the last decade there have been a flurry of cases concerned with the legal nature of bonuses. Mark Cornish ,...

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