Legal & HR

This month, the IGA Legal Team provides members with advice on letters from the Data Commissioner/ICO, managing employees with significant medical conditions, time limits for employees to make an unfair dismissal claim, and writing ‘without prejudice’ letters to employees. Unfair Dismissal: Time Limits Dismissed employees only have a certain amount of time after the dismissal […]

This month, the IGA Legal Team answer your questions on discrimination in the recruitment process, dismissing disabled employees, calculating redundancy pay, and motoring offences for courtesy cars and test drives: Dismissing Disabled Employees Employers are sometimes faced with the dilemma of having to manage a seriously ill employee in circumstances where they are unable or […]

Employing Apprentices Apprenticeships are common within the motor industry and can be very beneficial for both apprentice and employer. However as with all staffing decisions, you do need to understand them in order to ensure they are right for you and your business. What is an apprenticeship An apprenticeship is a work-based training programme which […]

Automotive organisations have joined forces with the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Working Minds campaign to tackle work-related stress in the motor repair trade ahead of Christmas. Ben, a charity that supports people who work or have worked in the automotive industry, has revealed one in two workers in the automotive sector have struggled with […]

Vanishing Dismissals It has long been held in Employment Law that a successful appeal against a dismissal by an employee can lead to the dismissal ‘vanishing’.  In such circumstances, an unfair dismissal claim will not succeed. In re-examining this area of law last week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held on the facts of the […]

Is consultation required in a redundancy with a pool of one? Yes, according to the case of Mogane v Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2022 EAT 139. The Claimant was one of several nurses employed on a succession of fixed-term contracts. The employer selected her post as ‘at risk’ for redundancy on the basis that […]

Customer Supplied Parts “A customer has asked me to fit parts that he has supplied. I told him at the time that I was not responsible if they failed but there is now a problem, and he is saying it is my fault.” Whilst it can be common for customers to supply parts, when things […]