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NHS Trust to pay out record damages in age discrimination case
An NHS Manager was yesterday awarded record damages after a Yorkshire health trust was deemed to have discriminated against her on the grounds of her age. The Leeds Employment Tribunal awarded Linda Sturdy the maximum damages of £33,500 for injury to feelings over the age discrimination and a further £5...
Case | 16 Apr 2009
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A new age?
...al pay case A nurse has won what has been calleda'landmarkequalpay claim' after it was found that her employer, City and Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust, failed to justify her pay being 14 lower than her male comparator's, a maintenance supervisor. This wasatestcaseintheequalpay claims against NHS Trusts of whether employers can justify paying women less than men under the old Whitley Council pay system. Experts predict it will have implications for thousands of claims being pursued. 35136 www.workplacelaw.net Employment update | Comment Members and affiliates share their thoughts and o...
Magazine issue | 5 Sep 2011
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The world in your hands?
... principles alone it is still difficult to assess whether a particular case should fall within a particular band or what sum would be appropriate. In practice, the best way to assess what sum a Tribunal is likely to award is by reviewing previous decisions. In Rowe v. Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2008) Ms Rowe and a number of other nurses were caring for a child. Both Ms Rowe and the child were of Afro Caribbean origin. Ms Rowe and her colleagues were sat with the child discussing a hen party. Ms Rowe asked why she had not been invited and the colleague said that it was b...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
...5 Mills and Reeve 26, 33 Millwall FC 19 Morriston Hospital 19 Nabarro Nathanson 13 Network Rail Infrastructure 27 Osborne Clarke 14, 33 Pinsent Masons 12 PJ Facilities 33 Prudential 19 RAC 34 Security Industry Authority (SIA) 14 Shepherd + Wedderbun 20, 27 Smurfit News Press 27 Starbucks 23 Swansea NHS Trust 19 Temporary Labour Working Group 7 Tom Giannini Architects 9 TUC 28, 34 Virgin Trains 18 West Midlands Police 20 Wilfield Shopfitting and Exhibitions 27 Advertisers in this issue Breathe CMS Cameron McKenna Kennedys Osborne Clarke THB Group T. 01223 209 920 www.breathegroup.com T. 020 7367 3...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
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Dealing with bogus claimants
...g their own cars for work, adequately insured? asks Dawn Girardi. 24 CENTRE OF ExCELLENCE David Sharp explains the challenges involved in choosing and preparing the new Workplace Law Executive Centre, opening in central London in April. 46 DIARy Coming soon from Workplace Law. 14 CASE LAW Senior NHS Consultant wins whistleblowing claim; and age bars for job applicants can be legal, rules EU court. Fu 27 ALTERED IMAGES Public relations expert, James Boyd-Wallis, outlines the communication and reputation management issues employers should consider when dealing with an employment dispute. LL F...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...zed. 30244 Trust fined after healthcare worker contracts hepatitis C A healthcare worker at a Worcestershire hospital contracted the Hepatitis C virus after injuring herself on a needle used to take blood from an infected patient. The worker, who had been training at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for three weeks, was instructed to take blood from a patient known to be infected with the virus. The HSE investigation found the employee was not made aware of the patient's infection status until after the injury occurred and was not supervised during the procedure. Despite action to counte...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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ETs on the rise
... and education), makes good sense. But we want to see Lord Young advocate that investment in prevention is what saves lives and money and make clear that there has to be a re-prioritisation in Government if this is to happen. At present, it seems relatively easy to secure funding for treatment (the NHS budget is ring-fenced) but very difficult to redirect resources to prevention, which would save a lot of those costs (as well as personal misery). This has to change. We need to look at how we use our resources to best effect. We have suggested to the HSE and ministers that there could be a much be...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2010
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...politan Borough Council, female healthcare workers, admin staff and cleaners claimed they should not have to name a specific male employee as a comparator when filing an equal pay grievance. The Court ruled in their favour. It is believed that the ruling will affect up to 7,000 local government and NHS staff with unresolved claims. www.workplacelaw.net Important decision on ETO reason defence in TupE cases A recent Employment Tribunal (ET) decision in Royden & Others v. Barnett Solicitors has serious adverse implications for outsource providers and their clients. The ET held that the new outsour...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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Soap star: The hygiene special issue
...ndon 22 September 2009 become knowledgeable on: n Recruitment and selection including conducting interviews n Performance management and employee relations n Training and development n Human resource planning It is time to stop the finger pointing of who is to blame for the poor cleanliness of our NHS hospitals, says Derek Butler. 20 ALLERGIC REACTION Local authorities should use their powers to ensure that more public toilets are available to the public, says Mike Bone. 09 pubLIC buILDING = pubLIC TOILET? Soap is one of the few substances that all workers come into contact with on a day-to-...
Magazine issue | 3 Mar 2009
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Perk of the job? Managing the risks faced by loneworkers
...from home or as mobile workers, communicating with loneworkers has never been more important; especially given what can happen if communication systems are not in place... Service, figures reveal there were 55,000 physical assaults on staff in the year 2006-7. Here, she tells Douglas Kitson how the NHS is working to manage the threat these workers face. 14 ChALLENGE 26 MANSfIELD TO GhANA IN ONE bIG LEAp This month, Workplace Law Magazine's own Editor, Kelly Mansfield is the subject of the challenge, as she prepares to travel to Africa at Christmas on a mission to support communities in Ghana. 0...
Magazine issue | 5 Jun 2008
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Occupational health: an unnecessary expense?
...musculoskeletal disorder such as back pain. By referring them early on you can offer them physiotherapy within the first seven days, which, says Budworth, will really help them because physiotherapy is more effective within the first six weeks following an injury. When you consider that the average NHS waiting time is about eight weeks, the benefits of using an occupational health service are clear -- your employee gets seen sooner, the problem gets solved quicker, and the individual gets back to work quicker. Some businesses, often small companies, fear that offering this kind of occupational he...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2007
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Who's looking at you?
...McKenna 29 Companies House 15 Department for Transport 20 Department for Work and Pensions 12 DTI 26 Elonconsulting 18 Employers Forum on Disability 10 EMO Cargo 24 Experian 15 FBI 20 First Quench Retailing 20 G&K Roofing Contractors 25 Gifford 18 Greenwoods Solicitors LLP 18, 23 Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust 24 Howatt Nicoll 18 HSE 20, 23, 27 Information Commissioner 16 Inland Revenue 24 JRB Consulting 18 Keith Bright Consultants 18 Kronospa 25 MacRoberts 24, 27 McKinsey & Company 10 Metropolitan Police 15 MI5 15 Mills and Reeve 24, 31 Monster Worldwide 9 National Criminal Intelligence Service 15...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2005
