Many employers are asking whether their employees are entitled to take time off for the additional bank holiday in June…
Recent research reveals what the impact of Covid-19 has been on mental health issues in some of the UK’s small…
The working landscape has changed dramatically since the beginning of the pandemic. More employees are working from home than ever…
The number of people in paid employment is up. In August 2021, the number of payroll employees in the UK…
On 11 July 2019, the Government Equalities Office launched a consultation on how best to tackle sexu-al harassment in the…
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson previously indicated that the government’s current work from home guidance will end on 21 June…
In the recent case of All Answers Ltd v W and Another, the Court of Appeal has held that when…
The draft Employment Rights Act 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order 2021 came into force…
The Government’s roadmap out of the current lockdown has undoubtedly been welcome news for employers, who can now start planning…
In the latest installment of the equal pay claims saga, the Supreme Court rejected Asda’s appeal that shop floor workers…
In Uber BV and Others v Aslam and Others, the Supreme Court looked in detail at the relationship between the…
The Chancellor of the Exchequer – Rishi Sunak – has announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough scheme), which…
This is the time of year when employment lawyers and HR professionals prepare for the changes to rates and limits…
Before words like ‘coronavirus’, ‘pandemic’ and ‘social-distancing’ became part of our daily vocabulary, a topic high on the agenda was…
The government has issued a new Treasury Direction formally extending the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (better known as the furlough…
The definition of disability in the Equality Act 2010 is that a person has a physical or mental impairment which…
There are new stricter time limits for making claims under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough). These apply during the…
As we will all now be aware, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (commonly known as the ‘furlough scheme’) has been…
On 5 November, the Chancellor announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (commonly known as the ‘furlough scheme’) which was…
The Prime Minister has announced that England will be entering into a national lockdown from Thursday 5 November until at…
In September the Chancellor unveiled plans for the Job Support Scheme (JSS) which comes into force from 1 November, taking…
The Chancellor has announced plans to increase support through the Job Support Scheme which is due to come into effect…
The Prime Minister has formally unveiled plans for a new three tier system for implementing local lockdowns restrictions across England.…
In the case of Glasgow City Council v Johnstone UKEATS/0011/18 the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT upheld a decision by the…
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 came into force in England at midnight. The Regulations confirm and…
The government has been under increasing pressure to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme which is going to stop providing…
In response to the rising number of cases of Covid-19, the Prime Minister outlined new measures in an address to…
The government has announced new legislation to ensure that furloughed employees who are made redundant will receive a statutory redundancy…
Schools have broken up for summer holidays and more employees are now venturing out and going abroad. Already we are…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £30bn plan to boost the economy and prevent mass unemployment as the financial effects…
The president of the employment tribunals for England and Wales has said that he expects a big increase of unfair…
Over the weekend, the government released guidance about upcoming changes to the coronavirus job retention scheme (also known as the…
On Friday 29 May 2020, the Chancellor announced reforms to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) (also known as furlough…
The government has launched its contact tracing service in England (similar initiatives available in the rest of the UK). The…
Following concerns over a lack of migrant labour as a consequence of Brexit, the government is significantly expanding its Seasonal…
The Chancellor has today announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Scheme”) will be extended for four months, until the…
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme online portal is now live and can be accessed through the Government Gateway. There is…
Over the weekend, HMRC published some much needed additional guidance about the Furlough Scheme (otherwise known as the Coronavirus Job…
In one of the largest ever surveys of its kind to be carried out, the Government EqualitiesOffice is surveying thousands…
A primary school headteacher who was sacked for having sex with two 17-year-old boys has wonnearly £700,000 in compensation.…
A casual worker is entitled to paid holiday, and their entitlement pay is calculated pro rata by reference to the…
Conisbee v Crossley Farms Ltd and others
In an intriguing case, the Tribunal considered whether vegetarianism is a belief, and…
Pregnancy or maternity discrimination is illegal under the Equality Act, yet up to 54,000 women ayear still feel forced out…
A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal (COA) has clarified the differing purposes of sharedparental leave (ShPL) and maternity…
The case of Grange v Abellio London Ltd will be of particular interest to employers as it confirms that non-compliance…
In a recent landmark case that was hailed the ‘first public sector gig economy victory’, a group of art educators…
Following a recent compensation claim for £300,000 against Cancer Research UK by one of its employees during a staff party,…
Iceland Foods are in a dispute with HMRC over the company’s Christmas savings scheme.…
In the case of Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd, the Supreme Court is considering whether professional services firm Egon Zehnder…
Six out of ten women would take into consideration an organisation’s gender pay gap when looking for a job, according…
An employer can be held liable for the unlawful actions of one of its employees if it takes place during…
‘Lancaster and Duke Ltd v Wileman’…
The case of Mbubaegbu v Homerton University Hospital considered when dismissal for misconduct without prior warning can be reasonable. It…
This April saw the most significant change to the taxation of termination payments in many years. The intention of the…
Ahead of the implementation of the GDPR on 25 May, Facebook and its relationship with Cambridge Analytica could set a…
Tesco is facing an £4 billion equal pay claim from thousands of female shop workers. If this claim is successful,…
From Westminster to Hollywood and more recently the charity sector, reports of sexual harassment have become a regular feature in…
While gender pay reporting currently only applies to organisations employing over 250 people, it’s advisable that any organisation employing over…
Christmas can be a notoriously tricky time for employers, with numerous social events and of course the inevitable office Christmas…
A recent ruling by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Barbulescu…
ACAS has issued new guidance related to employees who have a baby or babies that are ill or premature.…
The gig economy is often defined as “a labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work,…
Shared parental leave (SPL), which came into force in April 2015, allows parents to share up to 50 weeks of…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has recently handed down their judgment in Kent Police v Bowler. They confirmed that an…
If an employment contract is silent on when notice is deemed to be given, notice of termination doesn’t take effect…
Determining ‘worker’ status has been a major focus in the world of employment law recently, with several high-profile cases considering…
Reporting Guidelines…
On 15 February 2017, the government ‘named and shamed’ more than 350 employers who had underpaid their workers the national…
Last year an employment tribunal heard the case of Aslam, Farrar and Others v Uber where it was held the…
In the Autumn Statement 2016, the government announced major changes to salary sacrifice schemes that are due to take effect…
Last year we reported on the Trade Union Act 2016 (the “Act”) which received royal assent on 4 May 2016.…
In the case of Rehman v Jamia Hanfia Ghosia Mosque an employment tribunal has held that a former employee was…