Category Archives: Employment Tribunals

Changing Terms and Conditions of Employment – Sign or we will sack you – fair or unfair?

Olyvetree HR

How easy is it ‘in practice’ to change a Contract of Employment? I often get asked if you can change an employee’s terms and conditions of employment.   More simply put  ‘can I reduce what I pay one of my employees?’ “I want to keep them but need to reduce pay (or hours of work […]

Fair or Unfair? Sacked for being in the Pub when off sick.

Olyvetree HR

As an HR Consultant I come across many situations where employers want (or need) to take action to deal with employees who do something wrong.  It happens. This is a case where an employer felt the employee had done something wrong so dismissed him believing the reasons for the dismissal were ‘right’.  The Tribunal disagreed […]