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Technical faults; No longer a loophole for airlines

Under EU law, passengers delayed for more than three hours are entitled to up to 600 Euros in compensation unless their flight was delayed by extraordinary circumstances, which were outside of the control of the airline. Airlines’ attempt at avoiding payment Previously airlines have been utilising a loophole in the EU regulations to avoid paying…

Judicial Review on Tribunal Fees – Results are in

The introduction of tribunal fees has rocked the industry, and employment lawyers had to take a far more cautious approach when accepting new clients. Not all potential clients have the resources to pay the fees, so higher prospects of success (than before) had to be ensured if the firm was willing to initially bear those…

Racial Discrimination Lawyers

Have you experienced racial discrimination at work? If you feel that your employer or a fellow employee has caused you to suffer financially or psychologically due to discrimination, unfair dismissal or harassment then you may be entitled to compensation. Oakwood Solicitors are experts in employment law and the team here will be able to guide…

Objecting to changes in your employment contract

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has recently considered the effect of an employee failing to object to a variation of their contract, and continuing to work.   In the case of Wess v Science Museum Group, the Claimant, Ms Wess, was employed as a Curator in various roles since 1979. At the time of her…

Stress at Work Survey Commentary – Rachel Helmn

Rachel Helmn is the managing director of HUM (UK) Ltd. They are an employee wellbeing provider supporting businesses and employees to be productive, motivated and successful. She has kindly agreed to be interviewed about the results of our recent stress at work survey. What is your opinion on the stress at work survey results? We welcome the survey…

Stress at Work Survey Commentary – Nisha Postlethwaite

Since we published the results of our stress at work survey, we’ve been interviewing people who work in human resources to see what they thought of the results. In the first interview in the series, we have invited Nisha Postlethwaite, from Action Trainers, to give us her opinion on what we found out. What is your opinion on the…

Change in Holiday Pay Law – The Reality

Following the recent highly publicised cases in relation to holiday pay, we have received a lot of enquires in relation to this. In order to assess whether you have a claim, you will need to consider the below: Are you a worker / agency worker / casual worker or full/part time employed? (Self-employed persons, armed…

Overtime Should Be Taken Into Account When Calculating Holiday Pay

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has recently given its Judgment in the cases of Bear Scotland v Fulton, Amec v Law and Hertel v Wood (connected cases). It held that overtime payments, even if they are not guaranteed, should be taken into account for the purposes of calculating how much holiday pay an employee is…

New evidence questions long term benefit of CBT

Mr Oliver James, a leading psychologist, has warned that people with mental health problems are being misled about the long terms benefit of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)   CBT is the most popular therapy offered on the NHS. The treatment aims to help people manage their problems by changing the way they think and behave…