Case studies The following case studies represent a selection of examples that demonstrate Law At Work representing their clients in an Employment Tribunal situation. Challenging a change in Terms & Conditions A client of LAW employed staff on a 9-5 basis paying enhanced rates of overtime for work outside these hours. Due to a change in their customer’s requirements, the client sought to change hours of work to encompass regular evening shifts. The overall hours of work would not change but the evening work would now become regular hours and would not attract an overtime rate. Read the Challenging a change in Terms & Conditions case study Fighting a discrimination complaint It is an unusual case where a tribunal finds that an employee has been subjected to disgraceful acts of racial abuse and harassment and yet finds that an employer is not only not liable but that it has behaved perfectly correctly. Read the Fighting a discrimination complaint case study Redundancy dismissals A sad outcome of the recent economic turmoil has been the need for many businesses to make staff redundant. This is an area where it is very easy for an employer to fail to follow a fair and thorough procedure and face a finding of unfair dismissal. If the ex-employee has been unable to find alternative work, the costs of such an unfair dismissal can be great. Read the Redundancy dismissals case study Breach of contract A client took on the LAW service with an ongoing tribunal claim. The employee had just less than a year’s service but was suing on the basis that the client had failed to follow their contractual disciplinary policy. Had they followed this policy, the employee argued that she would have gained a year’s service and hence the right to claim unfair dismissal. The employee claimed that the damages for this (admitted) breach of contract should include a sum representing the ‘loss of a chance’ to claim unfair dismissal. Read the Breach of contract case study Negligent references While most employment related claims will be heard in employment tribunals, there are other forums in which employees may raise proceedings. Read the Negligent references case study Employers counterclaiming It is unusual for employers to leave employment tribunals with judgements ordering the employee who raised the claim to pay the ex-employer money, but this can happen. Read the Employers counterclaiming case study