• The EAT holds that a warning for refusing to move between work benches was not unfavourable treatment arising from an employee’s disability as her belief that her condition would worsen was mistaken.
• An ET has decided that a belief in Scottish independence has a sufficiently similar strength and persuasiveness to a religious belief and therefore qualifies as a philosophical belief protected by S.10 of the Equality Act 2010.
• The Ministry of Justice quarterly tribunal statistics for October 2018 to December 2018 show that 9,811 single employment tribunal claims were received, an increase of 23% compared to the same period a year ago.
• The Government has launched an advertising campaign encouraging workers to understand their holiday pay rights and employers to understand their legal obligations.
This great achievement marks the second year running in which an SMB client has won this prestigious award, with client Curious Films winning it last year.
Read moreSimons Muirhead Burton is pleased to congratulate our client Happy Town Productions Limited on the release of Happy Town series 1 on Sky Kids.
Read morePartner and head of SMB’s Criminal department, Phil Smith, featured on Nine News Australia yesterday, discussing the Sam Kerr trial on Nine News, on Australian prime time television.
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