Dentons - UK Employment Law Round-up

Privacy of personal communications at work

September 28, 2017

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the monitoring of personal messages on a work-related internet messaging account did breach the Article 8 right to privacy.

Supreme Court holds Employment Tribunal fees are unlawful

September 28, 2017

In what has been described as the biggest news in employment law in the last 50 years, on 26 July 2017 the Supreme Court ruled that the Employment Tribunal fees regime introduced controversially in 2013 was unlawful.

The impact of the Supreme Court's decision that Employment Tribunal fees are unlawful

September 28, 2017

The Supreme Court's decision in July 2017 abolished employment tribunal and EAT fees. At the time of writing the Government is still working out a system to repay paid tribunal fees, including to those parties that have paid the fee as part of a costs award. Notwithstanding the forthcoming announcement, the employment tribunals have already begun to deal with claims that on the face of it are out of time, having been re-issued now that no fee is payable.

The continuing importance of carrying out right to work checks on all employees

September 28, 2017

The rights of EU nationals working in the UK remain uncertain. We are awaiting confirmation of what documentation they will require to prove any ongoing right to work once the UK leaves the EU. What is certain is that it will remain important for employers to continue to check the eligibility of all their employees to work in the UK.