Employment consultant
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An employment consultant is an expert witness who advises courts and tribunals on employment related issues such as earnings, labour market analysis, residual earning capacity, and retraining. The main area involved is that of personal injury litigation, but employment consultants also deal with sex, race and disability discrimination cases. Increasingly, pay parity is a growth area.
Usually solicitors will use an employment report to quantify the loss of earnings or Smith v. Manchester awards.[1]
An employment consultant, like other experts witnesses, may be instructed by the solicitors for the claimant, the defendant, or as a jointly instructed expert, and may be required to give evidence under oath at trials and tribunal hearings.
Although employment consultants provide reports for many jurisdictions world-wide, the core areas are the countries using the common law system. Because of its different trail and compensation system for personal injury, the United States is less important than might be expected, and the main jurisdictions for which these experts prepare reports are England and Wales, Scotland, Republic of Ireland and South Africa. Most employment experts are based in the UK.
This type of expertise was a growth area from the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s, but was adversely affected by changes in the United Kingdom, the most important area. These included the withdrawal of legal aid for most personal injury cases, which meant that lawyers operating on a "no win no fee" basis were less likely to take up claims or incur the additional costs.
The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 also meant that the need for an expert report had to be sanctioned by a District Judge, which, together with the introduction of joint instruction also reduced demand.
In the decade since the CPR, many practitioners have left the field, and the surviving employment experts have frequently diversified into associated areas, such as case management, rehabilitation, and, increasingly, pay parity cases, following the wave of such cases initiated in the mid 2000s by trade unions and the controversial solicitor, Stefan Cross.[2][3]
A recent (2007) case of importance to employment consultants and personal injury solicitors is Van Wees v Karkour and Walsh. This dealt with the medical aspects of post-traumatic amnesia, but also clarified the financial impact of mild head injury even on those who remain capable of high level work. The judge in the case also made an important ruling that awards to women should not be based on their current lower earnings compared to men in the same occupation, since that would perpetuate inequality in the face of equal pay legislation.
[edit] References
- ^ Ritchie, Andrew (April 2005). "Smith v. Manchester Awards" (Microsoft Word DOC). http://www.piba.org.uk/assets/docs2/S_M-piba.doc. Retrieved on 2008-08-08.
- ^ Cohen, Nick (2006-06-18). "A lawyer's help to underpaid women is putting the wind up trade unions", The Observer. Retrieved on 8 August 2008.
- ^ Fricker, John (2007-01-16). "Greedy lawyers are making a fortune out of inequality", Personnel Today. Retrieved on 8 August 2008.
[edit] External links
- HJS Personnel Services
- Keith Carter & Associates
- Langman HRD
- Society of Expert Witnesses
- TRG Group
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