Case Studies

• When does an employer have knowledge of an employee’s disability under the Equality Act 2010?

  • PostedFebruary 20, 2019

  This was the question addressed by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the recent case of Lamb v The Garrard Academy. An individual is considered disabled if they have a physical or...

  Read more

• Case Study: Employee Investigations

  • PostedDecember 8, 2017

  Sometimes a client will request our support as an independent investigator into either disciplinary or grievance issues. This can be helpful where the client wants someone who has had no...

  Read more

• Case Study: Recruitment and Interim Management

  • PostedDecember 8, 2017

  ​We recently had a client whose HR Manager announced that she had decided to move to a new company after 15 years’ service with our client. As it had been...

  Read more

• Case Study: TUPE advice and redundancy consultation

  • PostedDecember 8, 2017

  With a TUPE specialist in the Ashtons HR Consulting team, we tend to get involved in a number of these technically complex legal projects. In one recent case, a London-based...

  Read more

• Case Study: Sickness absence management

  • PostedNovember 8, 2017

  The management of sickness absence can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of people management. One of our clients had an issue with an employee whose work performance was...

  Read more