Background Applicant: Mr Benedict Hampton / Respondent: STM Fiduciare Ltd The Respondent is a trust company business regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission, having offices in Jersey as well as in Malta, Gibraltar, Spain and Cyprus. The Applicant was employed by the Respondent (then known as Zenith Trust Company Limited) in Jersey on 18 […]

Introduction The Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal recently published a case which provides helpful guidance on the Discrimination (Jersey) Law 2013. For the first time, key principles of the law have been considered. The case highlights some important points for businesses to remember and some areas of the law have been clarified, particularly the following: […]

The Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal (the JEDT) recently considered the requirements that need to be present to form an employment contract and subsequently a zero hours contract. In Mr J F C De Sousa v States Employment Board, the JEDT stated that the English Courts had developed and introduced the concept of an “irreducible minimum” […]

A MAN who claims he was made the scapegoat for a botched three-million-euro transaction carried out by an Island trust company appeared before the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal yesterday. Benedict Hampton was dismissed as a senior manager at STM Fiduciaire for gross mis-conduct after a trust was terminated in 2012 and its assets were […]

A MAN who claims he was made the scapegoat for a botched three-million-euro transaction carried out by an Island trust company appeared before the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal yesterday. Benedict Hampton was dismissed as a senior manager at STM Fiduciaire for gross mis-conduct after a trust was terminated in 2012 and its assets were […]