Employment Law Terms

The re-employment of a dismissed employee in a job similar to his previous one. This is a possible remedy for unfair dismissal.

Failure by an employer to make reasonable adjustments constitutes unlawful disability discrimination. Reasonable adjustments must be made by an employer where: (a) a provision, criterion or practice puts a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage compared with non-disabled people; (b) a physical feature puts a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage compared with non-disabled people; […]

A procedure under Rule 71 of the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure enabling a party to request that the ET reconsiders its own decision. Applications must be made within 14 days of the decision and be supported by grounds showing why it would be in the interests of justice for the decision to be reconsidered. It […]

The system by which certain state benefits may be re-claimed from part of the compensatory award in an unfair dismissal claim. The central idea is that a Claimant who is compensated for his or her entire loss from losing a job should not be compensated twice for the same loss by receiving state benefits and […]

Where an employee gets back his old job as a remedy for unfair dismissal. This is a rare remedy. We were recently involved in obtaining one of a handful of reinstatement orders granted out of several hundred thousand annual claims.

Once liability has been established there is sometimes insufficient time or a need for the parties to produce further information before the tribunal considers the issue of the remedy to award. A subsequent hearing to determine compensation or remedies for the worker will consider the worker’s schedule of loss, what attempts were taken by the […]