Category Archives: Employment Law

Multi-million discrimination awards are rare but they still scare employers

Posted on 19 December, 2011 by Rick

A hospital doctor has been awarded a record £4.5m for sex and race discrimination by an employment tribunal. It is an enormous amount of money but, according to the tribunal report, the employer’s behaviour was enormously bad. So bad that … Continue reading →

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Will employment law changes encourage people to tackle poor performance?

Posted on 25 November, 2011 by Rick

Some people, especially employment lawyers, are getting excited about “the most radical reform to the employment law system for decades“. (Shouldn’t that be “of the employment law system”?) But, as Croner’s Paul Clarke notes, we still don’t know how many … Continue reading →

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