Employment weekly highlights—6 July 2017

Table of contents

• Employment tribunal equality claims
• Simmons v Castle 10 per cent uplift applies in employment tribunals
• TUPE, outsourcing, share and asset purchases
• TUPE transfers and workers in the gig economy
• Garden leave and TUPE
• Employees transfer in a pre-pack sale by an administrator: confirmed
• Employment Tribunals
• Procedural irregularity: no need to be satisfied irregularity affected outcome in order to allow appeal
• Gender pay gap
• Department for Education publishes gender pay gap

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Employment highlights includes: (1) clarification from the Court of Appeal that the Simmons v Castle uplift does apply in employment tribunals, (2) details of new tribunal claims which seek to establish that ‘gig economy’ workers are protected by TUPE 2006 and are entitled to a written statement of employment particulars, (3) confirmation by the ECJ that employees are protected on a pre-pack sale by an administrator, (4) dates for your diary, (5) updates to our case and consultation trackers, (6) recently added Q&As, and (7) this month’s highlights from the IRLR.