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Express your personality

…if you want your legal personality to be an express term.

Employers should note the cautionary tale of Mr & Mrs McVeigh, who appealed to the EAT on a tribunal’s determination that they personally were the employers of their dismissed employee Christine Livingstone. In the right circumstances bringing a claim against two real people can be [...]

Director / shareholder status claims stayed

All Employment Tribunal claims depending on the status of majority shareholders / directors are being stayed until the Court of Appeal gives its judgment in Secretary of State for BERR v Neufeld. My prediction is that the court will uphold the notion that these people can be treated as employees where the contractual relationship is explicit, [...]

Apprenticeships

Apprentices aged under 19, or who are in the first year of their apprenticeships, do not qualify for the minimum wage. There has a been a de facto minimum of £80 per week for the last couple of years, simply as a matter of contract between employers and the Learning & Skills Council. Still, this [...]

Na zdrowie!

It’s been a while – apologies. The reason for my absence was a holiday to Wrocław.

It is a beautiful city and I recommend it to you. The trip was also my first to Eastern Europe – Prague, Krakow and their ilk may be old hat to most people but I didn’t quite know what to [...]

Agency Workers

A neat summary of the situation at present:

The question of whether a claimant in an unfair dismissal case is or is not an employee within the meaning of the 1996 Act is increasingly litigated before employment tribunals in unfair dismissal cases, particularly those brought by workers on the books of employment agencies. This is not [...]