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The Government has announced that the length of service needed for the right to bring an ordinary unfair dismissal claim will increase from one year to two, from April 2012. It claims the move will reduce the number of unfair dismissal claims brought against employers each year by 2,000. The move has been welcomed by the CBI, but are unfair dismissal claims by employees with between one and two year’s service really the problem for employers? Of more concern to employers must surely be unfounded allegations of discrimination (for which there is no service requirement), which often require long and costly employment tribunal hearings to defend.
The qualifying period of service for claiming unfair dismissal used to be two years, before it was successfully challenged in Europe in the late 1990’s as being indirectly discriminatory against women. It will be interesting to see if such a challenge is brought following this latest announcement, and whether such a challenge would stand up.
As the use of social media continues to increase, its overlap with working life is becoming more and more prevalent.
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H&M is the latest retailer to confront its landlords about this ‘two tier retail market’ in an attempt to explore and negotiate more favourable terms.
In his 2018 Autumn Budget, the then Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, announced a significant change to the way liability for IR35 breaches will be dealt with for private sector companies from April 2020.
Ann Summers is the latest retailer to have entered into new voluntary deals with the majority of their landlords, rather than using the CVA process.
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