- An Employment Tribunal has held that an Excel Cycle courier is a worker. This was the second of four employment status cases in the Employment Tribunal against courier companies (Boxer v Excel Group Services Ltd).
2. The Court of Appeal has held that an Employment Tribunal cannot reject an employer’s justification defence in an indirection discrimination claim on the basis that the employer should have used a different aim with a less discriminatory impact (Harrod v West Midlands Police).
3. The Employment Appeal Tribunal has determined that an employer’s incompetent handling of a grievance is not sufficient for an Employment Tribunal to make findings of discrimination and victimisation against the employer (Kent Police v Bowler).
4. The Home Office has published changes to the Immigration Rules which are particularly relevant for sponsors of Tier 2 migrants. These changes will come into force from 6 April 2017.
5. In case you missed it (!), the Government has triggered Article 50 and published its Great Repeal Bill white paper in which it was confirmed that the entire body of EU law (including CJEU case law) will be transposed into UK law on Brexit Day (assumed, at this stage, to be 29 March 2019).
