Sherbornes Solicitors, the Cheltenham based Business Law specialists have strengthened their team with the appointment of William Stebbings as Head of the Commercial Department and GDPR Champion.  William has over 30 years’ experience of Commercial Law having advised the boards at household name companies such as Spirax Sarco and Bulmers...

The Appeal Tribunal has handed down judgment in a case that may shock some employers.   An employee handed in her notice within the admin department of an NHS Trust because she had been offered a job elsewhere in the Trust. The notice said “Please accept one months notice from...

An employer, in this case a company supplying security guards, has found retrospectively that a zero hours worker was entitled to parity in terms and conditions with those staff employed directly by the end user.   In this case, a security company provided a guard to an end user, on...

It is likely that you will have seen or heard that the Government published guidance on how to prepare for a no deal Brexit. With a large amount of employment law stemming from Europe, what rights will remain and what will change with Brexit is a concern for many businesses....

Having a nice summer break? Looking forward to getting back to the office and getting on with the things that really matter…… like GDPR….. But wait a minute, that was so last May’s problem, right? We have our policies in place – what could go wrong, right?? RIGHT??? WRONG! For...

There have been a lot of cases over the past year or so looking at what amounts to working time. This is important as where time is “working time” the national minimum wage is payable. In May last year, we reported an EAT case where it was decided that sleep-in...

We have tried to avoid the usual hyperbole about the world cup and managing absence. However, now that the country appears to be sitting up and taking notice at our boys' efforts, it is entirely possible that some staff might get a little carried away whether we win or lose....

The Appeal Tribunal has ruled that voluntary overtime should be taken into account when calculating holiday pay. This follows a steady creep in this direction from previous cases looking at compulsory overtime.    The case in question (Flowers v East Of England Ambulance Trust) concerns a public body, and so...

The now famous case of the Pimlico Plumbers, which we have reported on twice already when in the lower courts, has now been heard in the Supreme Court and there are no surprises in the judgement. This was a case of a plumbing company who used what it thought were self-employed...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled against an employer in the continuing battle over Employment Rights in the gig economy, taking DBS checks and the obligation to accept jobs when logged on, as clear indicators.  A recent ruling in the EAT upheld the Employment Tribunal’s decision that an Addison Lee...