Commentary

This is is where you will find longer articles written by our team, which in addition to picking up on changes in the pipeline, also explore the reception the developments are receiving from various bodies, and what the consequences may be.

Latest commentary

14 February 2012

Employment tribunals: The more things change the more they stay the same

Like death and taxes, employment tribunals are a fact of life for many employers in Scotland.[...]
16 January 2012

It was just banter!

At the recent Steven Lawrence murder trial one of the defendants, admitting to having made a series of lurid racist statements at his workplace described the comments as ‘Merely part of routine banter on the building site. It was done in jest and not in malice’, he told the jury.[...]
24 November 2011

Unfair dismissal – easing the burden on employers?

The recent announcement that the qualifying period for claiming unfair dismissal will rise from one to two years from April 2012 has focused attention on the inexorable rise in the number of tribunal claims brought each year. [...]
18 May 2011

Working from home? Do your homework....

Many of us at LAW, and no doubt many of our clients, will on occasions have to take work home to meet an impending deadline, be that a tribunal or a project.[...]
11 May 2011

Absent friends

Persistent short term absence from work is a difficult people management issue for most smaller employers.[...]
07 April 2011

Retirement changes trigger need to review current practice

Employers who have adjusted to the ‘planned retirement’ regime introduced in the 2006 Age Discrimination regulations will now have to reconsider how they deal with the retirement of their staff, following the abolition of the Default Retirement Age (DRA) in October 2011.[...]
17 March 2011

Court of Appeal reins in the Employment Appeal Tribunal

The superior courts which hear appeals against employment tribunal decisions have locked horns on the thorny subject of when an appeal body can and should reverse a tribunal decision.[...]