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Employment law brief: 10 December 2021

10 December 2021 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7960 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Get me out of here! In his end of year address, Ian Smith navigates a series of obstacles & challenges including notification, blacklisting, reconsideration, anonymisation & postponements
  • Collective redundancies—notification to BEIS.
  • Detriment on union grounds and blacklisting.
  • Three points on procedure.

The first two cases considered here, on issues of substantive law, concern rather unusual aspects of employment law, namely: (1) the interpretation of the law on collective redundancies, but not in the usual context of the obligation to consult worker representatives, but rather in relation to the rarely litigated separate administrative obligation to inform the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); and (2) the relationship between the general law on detriment for trade union reasons and the much more specialised provisions on the unlawful keeping of blacklists.

The third case concerns employment tribunal (ET) procedure. It arose in the course of prolonged litigation which has now been to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) twice and is notable for guidance given by that body on three different

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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