Employee-favourable
2026
Reasonable adjustments cover deadlines, not just physical changes to your job. Ask for more time when a disability is affecting your ability to meet one, particularly for a formal process. An unreasonable refusal, especially once you've explained the impact, can be unlawful.
Employee-favourable
2025
If your employer receives an occupational health report recommending adjustments and does not act on it, that failure can support both a reasonable adjustments claim and, if you resign because of it, a constructive dismissal claim.
Mixed
2026
What matters is whether your overtime is regular, not whether it's guaranteed. If it is, it should be included when your holiday pay is worked out, and you can usually claim a shortfall going back up to two years.
Employee-favourable
2026
If your employer ends a work-from-home arrangement linked to breastfeeding or childcare without a genuine business justification, that can be indirect sex discrimination, even without anything else going wrong.
Employee-favourable
2026
Agreeing to a reasonable adjustment is not the same as making it happen, and unreasonable delay can itself be unlawful.
Employee-favourable
2026
If your employer leaves you unsupported and then blames or belittles you when things go wrong, that can be enough to resign and win a constructive dismissal claim. It's even clearer if they throw in comments about your age.
Employee-favourable
2026
A serious, ongoing failure to pay your wages, pension or holiday pay can be a fundamental breach of your contract, giving you the right to resign and claim constructive dismissal.
Employee-favourable
2024
Being frozen out by a colleague, over months or years, can be constructive dismissal if your employer knew and never properly fixed it.
Employee-favourable
2023
A slow or superficial grievance investigation can itself help prove constructive dismissal, on top of whatever conduct you originally complained about.
Employee-favourable
2025
Sitting on a race complaint and then disciplining you for something unrelated and minor is a combination that can itself count as unlawful discrimination.
Wondering if what you're dealing with counts as a toxic work environment, or something the law actually covers? Here's the difference between a bad atmosphere and unlawful conduct, and what to do about either one.
Employer-favourable
2019
Suspension isn't automatically unlawful just because it happens. Whether it breaches your contract comes down to whether your employer had reasonable and proper cause, on the specific facts of your situation.
