Jason Braier
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Employment law barrister at @42BR_employment. Dad to 2 amazing children. Love a good #ukemplaw thread. All views my own, etc etc etc.
London, England
Joined July 2015
Whilst @gilescoren is a great columnist and restaurant critic, I fear he's a little to learn before he makes it as an employment lawyer. For a start, alas it's currently outside the employment tribunal's powers to sentence a respondent to death. #ukemplaw.
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Great news: .
An important campaign by the Miscarriage Association to seek to add miscarriage loss to bereavement leave entitlements in the Employment Rights Bill. It's an amendment that makes absolute sense and one I strongly support.
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An important campaign by the Miscarriage Association to seek to add miscarriage loss to bereavement leave entitlements in the Employment Rights Bill. It's an amendment that makes absolute sense and one I strongly support.
Today, we’re making a stand and launching our Leave for Every Loss campaign, so that women and their partners who experience a pre-24 week pregnancy loss have the legal right to take bereavement leave from work. Find out more about our campaign here:
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In case Gregg Wallace needs expert advice on this, there is no exception under the Equality Act allowing sexual harassment of 'middle class women of a certain age'.
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I want to write a profound tweet but all I can think of is: Why, America? WHY?.
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A useful intro to menopause & disability on Daniel Barnett's podcast this morning. For a more in-depth look at this crucial topic, come to our @42BR_Barristers annual lecture on 28 November. #ukemplaw .
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I shudder at the prospect of a Shadow Justice Secretary who wants to leave the ECHR and to tear up the Equality Act.
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Click here for my thread on yesterday's CA judgment in Haycocks v ADP, looking iat the duty to consult in a redundancy process, whether collective consultation is always required, & when consultation is considered to take place at a formative stage.
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RT @ConnieRCliff: CA to hand down judg't this morning in ADP RPO v Haycocks on importance of whole workforce consultation to fairness of a….
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Excellent episode on Moussa, a case which unfortunately doesn’t appear to have been appealed further.
Can two halves become whole? Is collective memory an employment law “thing”? The 11KBW Employment Podcast gets deep this month, as Judy Stone KC and Joseph Lavery unpick the tangled case law on when an employer can be liable for detriments inflicted by a.
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Should be a really great event and a great panel. Make sure to apply quickly. Look forward to seeing as many #ukemplaw-yers there as possible!.
Hot off the press:@42BR_Barristers annual lecture this year is on 28.11.24, looking at menopause, a topic of increasing interest to employment lawyers over the last couple of years since Rooney v Leicester CC & the WEC's Menopause in the Workplace report.
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Hot off the press:@42BR_Barristers annual lecture this year is on 28.11.24, looking at menopause, a topic of increasing interest to employment lawyers over the last couple of years since Rooney v Leicester CC & the WEC's Menopause in the Workplace report.
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Also potentially some interesting questions under s.19 re detriment. I've not seen the grounds of appeal but doubtless all will be revealed imminently.
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The case of Institute & Faculty of Actuaries v Davda is about to start in the CA. Link is here: My thread on the EAT decision is here: The appeal may well involve some interesting questions on exact correspondence under s.13.
🧵Institute & Faculty of Actuaries v Davda provides a useful vehicle to consider aspects of direct & indirect discrimination, comparators & the instructing etc & aiding provisions of s.111-112 EqA. #ukemplaw.
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I've put a thread about this very interesting case (especially on incorporation of policy terms into contracts & the normative effect of collective bargaining) over at #ukemplaw.
Very pleased to appear in this important case.
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RT @IDS_team: Government launches Employment Rights Bill consultations on application of guaranteed hours contracts to agency workers and m….
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RT @DeshpalPanesar: There’s no such thing as a free breakfast, but there is such a thing as a FRU breakfast. Sunday 1st December. Raising f….
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A belated unashamed #humblebrag (for which I'll happily pay) to thank those whose kind hyperbole convinced both Legal 500 & C&P to promote me a band in this year's directories.
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