Employment compensation hike; Dentists extracted; Tribunal tinkering; Flexible tenancy escape; New divorce law latest; Standard orders – again! Up the workers.
SACK RATES BEAT NS&I
Praise be to the annual review of employment tribunal awards for, apart from doing a favour to the aggrieved worker, it gives me something to write about. Link that to the annual publication of At a Glance and persuade Oxford University Press to bring out the Judicial College’s personal injury guidelines more regularly and I could cease having to read any law reports. This time around, we get an RPI increase of a stonking 4.9% as against last year’s 1.1% where the axe falls (more felicitously known as the appropriate date) on or after 6 April 2022. The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2022 (SI 2022/182) raises the limit of one week’s pay—used for the calculation of the basic and additional unfair dismissal awards and redundancy payments—from £544 to £571. The unfair dismissal compensatory award ceiling increases by a handsome £4,385 to £93,878.
IT’S MY CLAIM, I’LL SUE WHO I WANT TO
Pawley v Whitecross
