HMRC has been successful in the first case since 2011 on the intermediaries legislation (known as the IR35 rules) in a case which brings back into the limelight a commonly-used freelancing structure.… Continue Reading
“What the Court clearly failed to do was to say how, in today’s politically correct world, any Christian can even enter a conversation with a fellow employee on the subject of religion and not potentially later end up in an Employment Tribunal”. These are words of Victoria Wasteney on BBC News Online last week following … Continue Reading
A particularly brutal little tale from the Employment Appeal Tribunal this month about what happens when you are sacked for deceiving your employer, bring an Employment Tribunal claim and then lie to the ET too. Mr G (not his real name, for reasons which will follow – his real name is Mr Roden, also for … Continue Reading
Most internal investigative processes are conducted in relative confidence and with as much discretion as possible. No such luxury for the BBC, forced (I will come back to that word) to carry out its process with Jeremy Clarkson in the full public gaze well before it can do so internally. Clarkson, already on a final … Continue Reading
There being only so much fun you can get out of someone breaking an egg on Nigel Farage, no wonder the Press has now turned to Jeremy Clarkson’s alleged use of a word beginning with N during the filming of Top Gear. Clarkson has not helped himself here, his ground shifting uneasily from (a) never … Continue Reading
In a recent Radio Times interview Dara O’Briain, presenter of UK comedy quiz Mock the Week has hit back at BBC Director of Television Danny Cohen’s decision to require all such panel shows to feature at least one female comedian. While he obviously agrees that women should be involved in these programmes, said Mr Briain, … Continue Reading
Yesterday it emerged that former Channel 4 horse-racing pundit John McCririck is chomping at the bit to sue Channel 4 and a second company, IMG Sports Media, for age discrimination (and presumably unfair dismissal) over its/their decision to fire him last year. McCririck is arguing that he was ousted because he is 72 years old … Continue Reading
If there is one thing to unify outrage across the political spectrum, it is the pay-outs which are often reportedly made to “failed” senior figures on departing their roles. The most recent example is George Entwistle, who may go down in history as the shortest serving Director General of the BBC, having managed to stay … Continue Reading
