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08 January 2020 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7869 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Employment law brief: 9 January 2020

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Ian Smith gets on his bike post-Christmas to deliver a welcome refresher course for employment geeks & those with a general interest
  • Is a courier a ‘worker’ and where are the limits of whistleblowing protection?
  • The legal status of a tribunal and how the non-technical approach to early conciliation can disadvantage the claimant, not just the respondent.

Given the result of the general election, it is now not urgent for employment lawyers to re-read the classic texts and dig out old law school notes to remind themselves what a trade union is and just what can be lawfully done in the course of industrial action. Instead, this first column of 2020 concentrates on two substantive issues of individual employment law (is a courier a ‘worker’ and where are the limits of whistleblowing protection?) and two procedural issues (the legal status of a tribunal and how the non-technical approach to early conciliation can disadvantage the claimant, not just the respondent).

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