by Naomi Cunningham & Michael Reed
I’m running the London Marathon on Sunday. Partly for fun, but I’m also raising money for the Free Representation Unit.
FRU is charity that provides representation to people who can’t afford to pay lawyers. In the last year we’ve helped 700 people, about 300 in employment tribunals. I work there as Legal Officer.
If you’d like to help, donations can be made through Just Giving. Any contribution you would like to give would be very welcome and will be put to good use.
One of the first things you will do when you arrive at the tribunal is size up the opposition. This is part of human nature – and potentially useful: you want to know what you’re up against. Your opponent’s choice of hot drink is a key ‘tell’ which it is essential that you learn to read.
We’ve added a Resources page to the site that gives information about other useful information.
Do you have any practical insights about running an employment tribunal case that you would be willing to share with other users of this blog? If so, please email us: ideas@etclaims.co.uk. If we decide to use your idea, we will credit it to you (unless you tell us you would prefer to remain anonymous).
This is a post about avoiding a certain kind of dispute with your employer, rather than winning it.
Section 11(2) of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1998 reads:
Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer is the first owner of any copyright in the work subject to any agreement to the contrary
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One might have thought that the Equality and Human Rights Commission or the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (or both) would provide copies…