EAT Trade Union Rights: Action Short of Dismissal The Claimant had complained under section 146(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 that he had been subjected to a detriment for union-related activities. The Employment Tribunal rejected the complaint and the Claimant appealed. The appeal was dismissed: the Employment Tribunal had properly … Continue reading Watson v London Metropolitan University: EAT 25 Feb 2015

The ET was entitled to find that the employer’s ‘sole or main purpose’ in giving the Claimant a formal oral warning for refusing to comply with an instruction to take down an email list he had created for union communications was ‘preventing or deterring him from taking part in the activities of an independent trade … Continue reading University College London v Brown (Formal Oral Warning, ‘Sole or Main Purpose’): EAT 17 Dec 2020

TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP The Respondent below appealed against the Judgment of the Employment Tribunal (‘ET’) upholding the Claimant’s claim that he was subjected to a detriment for the sole or main purpose of penalising him for his trade union activities contrary to section 146(1)(b) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. The … Continue reading North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust v Rice: EAT 30 Jan 2019