HR Briefing - September 2024

After a short break over the summer, welcome back to our monthly briefing for HR teams and in-house employment counsel – bringing you this month's employment law highlights in an easy-to-read package.

Podcast: fire and rehire

In this month's podcast, Matthew focuses on the Supreme Court's decision to grant an injunction preventing Tesco from using dismissal and re-engagement (or fire and rehire as the tabloids term it) to remove a contractual pay element.

Employment status

The second Supreme Court judgment from this month looks at the employment status of a group of football referees. Since the seminal 1960s decision in a case called Ready Mixed Concrete, the courts have used three key criteria to determine whether an individual should properly be categorised as an employee or a genuinely self-employed contractor. The first is whether there is a bargain where the individual undertakes to work and the end user undertakes to pay (the wage/work bargain); the