Pool of one redundancy unfair
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr. Valimulla v Al-Khair Foundation (June 2024)) has given HR managers and employment lawyers a further…
Employment
Employment status of volunteers
Employment status of volunteers – Groom v Maritime and Coastguard Agency (EAT May 2024)
Mr Groom was a volunteer in…
The correct date for assessing disability
The Employment Appeal Tribunal in Mr Hafeez Ahmed v Department for Work and Pensions (June 2024) serves as an important…
Contract agency workers discrimination claims
Contract agency workers had no claim against end user Principal over pay: Boohene and Ors v Royal Parks Ltd
The recent…
Personal liability of agents
The principle of personal liability applies to agents of suppliers of people or services to end users, as is illustrated…
Personal liability of managers for discrimination
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has made it clear that tribunals have no discretion in finding (or not finding) a contravention…
Radical change to employment rights
With the Labour Party now in power, we take an in-depth look at their proposed key employment reforms. These reforms…
Pride in the workplace: Anti-discrimination rights and legal protections
Nearly 20 years ago, the ECJ decision of P v S and Cornwall County Council marked the first landmark judgment…
Navigating employment after a serious injury: a comprehensive guide to your legal rights
Where someone sustains a severe injury, they will usually face a long period off work. Even when they are fit…
Family friendly employment rights for LGBTQ+ parents
The Equality Act 2010 enshrined discrimination laws in one piece of legislation, including laws preventing employers from discriminating based on…
Pride and pronouns
I don’t use pronouns in my email signature and when I was asked to write this article as part of…
Recent employment law cases
Disability discrimination: reasonable adjustments
Our experience of dealing with disability discrimination claims since the advent of the legislation in the…
Victoria Furlong
About Victoria
I am a solicitor in the Southampton office, specialising in employment law. I am able to advise employers…
Statutory employment law changes
The carer’s leave regulations 2024
From day one of employment an employee who has a dependent with a long-term care…
IR 35 reforms make PSC intermediary contracting more attractive
Two statutory initiatives have been taken by the government in the Spring budget to make contracting through personal service companies…
Changes to the National Minimum Wage exemption for live-in domestic workers
Currently the law states that there is no entitlement to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in respect of work done…
Post termination restrictions in employment contracts
It is an inevitable part of the working world that employees will leave. This can be for any number of…
Workers have new rights for predictable terms and conditions
A Bill giving workers the right to request more predictable terms and conditions in their working pattern has received royal…
Can employees claim for historic underpayments of holiday pay?
Can employees claim for historic underpayments of holiday pay even if there are gaps of more than three months between…
Court of Appeal injunction protects our client from unfair competition
Putting this issue’s article on post termination restrictions into practice, the Moore Barlow Employment law team acted for an internet…
Menopause in the workplace – hot flush about nothing?
You would think that it didn’t need to be spelt out that more than half of the population are going…
Employer’s guide to right to work checks
All UK employers have a duty to prevent illegal working and therefore the law prescribes that right to work checks…
What is sexual harassment in the workplace?
Legislation relating to sex discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace has been a part of UK equality law for…
Settlement agreement guide
It is common to hear about large scale redundancies, or dismissals, in the news. Indeed, it is often the case…
Employment (allocation of tips) Act 2023
What you need to know about the allocation of tips bill
On 2nd May 2023, the Employment (allocation of tips) Act…
Cathal McCabe
About Cathal
I am an experienced employment law associate solicitor who practices both contentious and non-contentious employment law work.
My…
Restrictive covenants and employee competition
In the recent case of Boydell v NZP Ltd and others, the Court of Appeal considered the severability (or “blue pencil”)…
Claire Wagstaff
About Claire
I am a Senior associate in the employment team and qualified in 2010. My clients range from companies…
Are employees entitled to flexible working?
One of the significant changes that we have seen in recent years is the broad acceptance that office working Monday-to-Friday…
Enhanced protection and benefits for employees on maternity leave
There are various provisions from which employees on maternity leave currently benefit and these protections are set to be increased…
2023/2024 Annual rate increases
The 2023/2024 annual rate increases came into effect on 6 April 2023.
The annual increases to the minimum wage and…
What is an unless order?
In the recent case of Minnoch and Others v Interserve FM Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) overturned the tribunal’s earlier…
Tech companies preparing for growth
Insight bite: Tech companies preparing for growth
Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, tech firms remain focused on growth, with a large…
State of play for businesses
Insight bite: State of play for businesses
Business leaders have weathered storm after storm over the past year. Despite recent…
Building back hospitality
Insight bites: Building back hospitality
The pandemic, Brexit and rampant inflation have hit hospitality hard. Staff are harder to come…
Nikita Shah
About Nikita
I am a trainee solicitor in the Employment team at the Richmond office. I primarily support other solicitors,…
What happens to your employees when you sell your business
For every business owner, whether you own a small family run company or a muti-national corporation, there may come a…
Trans discrimination: What employers have to prevent, and how they should go about it
Over the last 10 years, societal awareness of trans rights and the challenges the community faces has grown massively. Unfortunately,…
Settlement agreement guide: what is a settlement agreement?
Everything you need to know about settlement agreements and what to do if you are offered one by your employer.…
Will the UK introduce a four-day working week?
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased support among workers for a four-day working week with no loss of pay.…
Upcoming 2023 employment legislation
Following on our recent Looking Back, Going Forward seminar in our Woking office, this article looks at some of the…
Redundancy pools of one – proceed with caution
What significance do the very recent cases of Mogane v Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (EAT) and, as we…
How do employers protect their trans and gender-fluid employees?
When Liz Truss was Minister for Women and Equalities, a year before she campaigned to become Prime Minister, one of…
Negative Glassdoor reviews
Negative Glassdoor reviews can have a serious impact on employers. Such reviews might make it harder for employers to recruit…
Employee’s right to take time off for the queen’s funeral
Many employees are asking whether they can take time off on the additional bank holiday that has been announced on…
The Moore Barlow Silicon Cup Regatta continues to raise funds for charity
The IT industry’s biggest sailing event is again creating a fantastic opportunity for networking and team building while fundraising for…
The risk of holding a “sham” redundancy procedure
In the recent case of Rentplus UK v Coulson, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) upheld the Tribunal’s earlier decision to award…
Planes, trains and postal workers – What to do when they threaten to go on strike?
At the beginning of June, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (“RMT”) announced that over 50,000 railway…
New tipping legislation put on hold
Workers and trade unions will be disappointed to learn that the plans have been shelved to introduce legislation which would…
Smaller firms facing a ‘low workforce morale epidemic’
Recent research reveals what the impact of Covid-19 has been on mental health issues in some of the UK’s small…
Flexible working and your rights as an employer
The working landscape has changed dramatically since the beginning of the pandemic. More employees are working from home than ever…
Employers, ensure you meet the legal requirements when hiring
The number of job vacancies available in the UK has hit an all-time high in the past couple of months,…
Employees have the pick of the crop
The number of people in paid employment is up. In August 2021, the number of payroll employees in the UK…
Understanding harassment in constructive dismissal: key insights from Driscoll (née Cobbing) v & P Global Ltd and another case
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held Driscoll (née Cobbing) v & P Global Ltd and another that a constructive…
Government publishes response to consultation on sexual harassment in the workplace
On 11 July 2019, the Government Equalities Office launched a consultation on how best to tackle sexu-al harassment in the…
Compensation received by senior advertising executive following unfair dismissal
The Moore Barlow Employment team acted for an individual with over 20 years’ experience working in the media and advertising…
Favourable settlement reached for employer within days of receiving threat of interim injunction
The Moore Barlow Employment team was instructed by a consultancy specialising in data protection and cybersecurity following the termination of…
Webinar: Determining your workers’ employment status and how to manage legal risks
In the on-going Uber drivers’ case, the recent landmark decision of the Supreme Court has changed the approach that Employment…
Low pay commission publishes non-compliance and enforcement report
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has published its fourth standalone report: Non-compliance and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage 2021.…
Right to work checks are being extended until 31 August 2021
Employers must ensure that every employee has the right to work in the UK. Right to work checks must be…
Disability discrimination case law – All Answers Ltd v W and Another
In the recent case of All Answers Ltd v W and Another, the Court of Appeal has held that when…
Protection from detriment in health and safety
The draft Employment Rights Act 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order 2021 came into force…
Moore Barlow advises BANAIR (Holdings) on its acquisition of Bright Structures Limited
BANAIR is a growing UK based engineering group with manufacturing in the UK and Poland, and sales markets mainly in…
Webinar: Managing work from home arrangements: considerations for employers
This webinar will give an overview of the considerations that employers need to give to work from home set-ups on…
Right road back to the office
The Government’s roadmap out of the current lockdown has undoubtedly been welcome news for employers, who can now start planning…
Webinar: Emerging from lockdown and how to manage the return to the workplace
As the UK continues to progress along the government’s roadmap towards the end of restrictions, many employers are turning their…
Webinar: Looking back going forward: an employment law update
At the beginning of 2020 the focus of Employment Lawyers and HR professionals was on the impact of Brexit on…
Furlough scheme extended until September 2021
The Chancellor of the Exchequer – Rishi Sunak – has announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough scheme), which…
Are you ready for wage rises?
This is the time of year when employment lawyers and HR professionals prepare for the changes to rates and limits…
Extension to off payroll working rules
Before words like ‘coronavirus’, ‘pandemic’ and ‘social-distancing’ became part of our daily vocabulary, a topic high on the agenda was…
Using the “reasonable steps” defence
Many employers when faced with a discrimination or harassment claim by one employee in relation to conduct by one or…
Treasury Direction extends the furlough scheme until April
The government has issued a new Treasury Direction formally extending the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (better known as the furlough…
Are anxious whistleblowers blowing into the wind?
Recent research by the whistleblowing charity Protect found that UK employers disregarded nearly half of all their employees’ coronavirus-related concerns.…
Webinar: Beware the automatic unfair dismissal
Many employers are having to make changes to their business, including restructuring and redundancy programmes. In doing so, it is…
What does Brexit mean for your workforce?
The end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 means your business should be taking preparatory steps now to…
Notice pay for furloughed employees
As we will all now be aware, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (commonly known as the ‘furlough scheme’) has been…
Moore Barlow acts on MBO of the Serocor Group
Moore Barlow has advised the management team in their successful management buyout of the Serocor Group, the leading £100m+ turnover…
Extended Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme Guidance released
On 5 November, the Chancellor announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (commonly known as the ‘furlough scheme’) which was…
Government support for jobs and the self-employed is extended into 2021
The government has just announced further extensions to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), also known as the furlough scheme,…
Covid-19: Chancellor announces increased support for jobs
The Chancellor has announced plans to increase support through the Job Support Scheme which is due to come into effect…
Covid-19: Three tier lockdown and extension to the Job Support Scheme
The Prime Minister has formally unveiled plans for a new three tier system for implementing local lockdowns restrictions across England.…
Personality clash dismissal permitted
In most cases, dismissal of an employee without following any sort of formal procedure would lead to the conclusion that…
Dismissal unfair despite no chance of compensation
An employee was entitled to bring a claim for unfair dismissal even where there was no reasonable prospect of recovering…
Covid-19: New Coronavirus Regulations now in force
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 came into force in England at midnight. The Regulations confirm and…
Covid-19: Chancellor announces Job Support Scheme
The government has been under increasing pressure to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme which is going to stop providing…
Webinar: As the furlough scheme draws to an end, what are your workplace options?
As the furlough scheme draws to an end, what are your workplace options? With only a few weeks to go,…
Webinar: The ongoing challenge of bringing staff back to the workplace
Since 1 August, the government has given employers the green light to bring their employees back to the workplace (provided…
Covid-19: New legislation for redundancy and notice pay of furloughed employees
The government has announced new legislation to ensure that furloughed employees who are made redundant will receive a statutory redundancy…
Covid-19: Travel abroad and compulsory quarantine – how do employers manage this?
Schools have broken up for summer holidays and more employees are now venturing out and going abroad. Already we are…
Webinar: To return to work – or not
The challenges of coronavirus and how employers manage returning to work
We are facing a time of uncertainty as employees…
Coronavirus: Bringing your employees back to work
Michelle Tudor, senior associate in the employment team discusses some of the practicalities and legal issues that may arise as…
Chancellor unveils coronavirus recovery plan to save jobs
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £30bn plan to boost the economy and prevent mass unemployment as the financial effects…
Making your workplace Covid-19 secure
As the stay at home rule relaxes and businesses get the green light to re-open, employers are making plans to…
Flexible furlough scheme confirmed by Treasury Direction
The Treasury Direction covering the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has been updated to cover the amendments to the original…
Flexible furlough scheme
Over the weekend, the government released guidance about upcoming changes to the coronavirus job retention scheme (also known as the…
Seasonal worker scheme multiplies by four
Following concerns over a lack of migrant labour as a consequence of Brexit, the government is significantly expanding its Seasonal…
Extension to the furlough scheme
The Chancellor has today announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Scheme”) will be extended for four months, until the…
David Ludlow
About David
I am a Partner in the employment law team for businesses and individuals.
I enjoy advising and representing…
Employment law factsheet 2020
Whilst businesses are busy organising their workforces during the current Covid-19, there are a number of changes effective from 6…
Immigration for schools update: sponsored students affected by Coronavirus
The Home Office has released updated guidance to deal with individuals affected by travel restrictions associated with coronavirus (COVID-19).
Tier…
Naomi Greenwood
About Naomi
With over twenty years of specialist experience, I guide HR professionals, in-house counsel, senior management and individuals through…
Katherine Maxwell
About Katherine
I am a partner and head of the firm’s employment law team and work from our Richmond and…
Government sexual harassment survey
In one of the largest ever surveys of its kind to be carried out, the Government EqualitiesOffice is surveying thousands…
Samira Ahmed wins equal pay tribunal
One of the BBC’s most high-profile presenters, Samira Ahmed, has won the equal pay tribunal shebrought against the broadcaster.
Ahmed,…
Employees living on site
Many roles in the UK require employees to live close to their place of work.
Sometimes, employees are required to…
New NHS Visa
The Conservatives are planning to introduce a “NHS visa” as part of their proposals for an Australian style points based…
Wrongly calculated holiday pay – a case in focus
It is usual for part-time staff who work a full year to have their holiday pay pro-rated but in a…
Employer claim response too generic
Upton-Hansen Architects v Gyftaki…
Are you liable for an employee’s Facebook post?
Forbes v LHR Airport Ltd…
Ruling on unreasonable covenants comes as a relief
Tillman v Egon Zehnder Limited.…
Should the salary threshold for Tier 2 workers be reduced?
There are suggestions that the next Prime Minster should lower the salary threshold from £30,000 to £20,000. Industry experts believe…
Would an Australian points based system work in the UK?
Boris Johnson has recommended that we move towards an ‘Australian style’ points based system. We already have a points based…
Parental leave – equal pay?
A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal (COA) has clarified the differing purposes of sharedparental leave (ShPL) and maternity…
Should the government guarantee the rights of EU Citizens living in the UK?
The Commons Home Affairs Committee said technical issues had ‘blighted’ the scheme with some struggling to navigate the online application…
10 firm-wide promotions at Moore Blatch
With the firm’s continued growth and success, Moore Blatch, a top 100 law firm focused on supporting people, families and…
Should employers sponsor their highly skilled EU Workers if there is a no deal Brexit?
If the UK leaves the EU with no deal, we are now recommending that employers should at least consider sponsoring…
Employees can investigate before end of police inquiries
In the case of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust v Gregg, the Court of Appeal confirmed that an employer…
Not all workers get 20 uninterrupted minutes off
In the recent case of Network Rail Infrastructure v Crawford, for workers deemed “special workers”, compensatory rest need not be…
When sacking isn’t religious discrimination
In the case of De Groen v Gan Menachem Hendon, a teacher was sacked from an ‘ultra-orthodox’ Jewish nursery in…
Top athlete fails to win employment status
Former Team-GB cyclist Jess Varnish brought an Employment Tribunal claim against British Cycling and UK Sport, with the aim of…
Job hunters focus on gender pay gap
Six out of ten women would take into consideration an organisation’s gender pay gap when looking for a job, according…
Morrisons loses at High Court
The supermarket Morrisons has failed in its challenge to the High Court that it be held liable for a security…
Drug and alcohol tests: what employers need to know
Barratt Developments recently announced it would introduce randomised drug and alcohol testing for staff to combat increased risks on building…
Workers taking sick days drops to record low
Nearly 9 in 10 HR professionals have noticed that employees are spending longer at work than is required of them.…
Confused about holiday pay?
‘Flowers V East of England Ambulance Trust’This case centres around a group of claimants who worked for East of England…
Should you pay national minimum wage for sleep-in/on-call workers?
‘Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake’This case considered whether two care workers (Mrs Tomlinson-Blake and Mr Shannon) were entitled to national…
An employer can still raise issues on remedy despite failing to lodge a claim on time
The Court of Appeal has recently ruled that an employer who failed to lodge an ET3 in response to an…
Case law update – confusion over shared parental leave
In our last monthly update we commented on the case of Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd. This case concluded…
Employment contracts failure to detail when notice is given
The case of Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood considered the matter of when the notice of termination…
A brief examination of new Government plans to help Windrush families
The Government has published new guidance for undocumented Commonwealth citizens, Amber Rudd has resigned and Sajid Javid has been appointed the new Home Secretary,…
The gender pay gap- did you fail to report?
More than 1500 companies who employ over 250 people failed to report their gender pay gap results on the 4th…
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission identifies widespread Sexual Harassment failures
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has identified widespread failures by employers to set out sufficient processes and policies on…
Recruiting seasonal workers after Brexit – possible solutions?
The issue of immigration has featured prominently in the Brexit debate. Following the decision to leave in June 2016, the…
Failure to enhance shared parental leave is not direct sex discrimination
The case of Capita v Ali concerns a father who took shared parental leave so that his wife could go…
Tesco’s £4bn equal pay bill
Tesco is facing an £4 billion equal pay claim from thousands of female shop workers. If this claim is successful,…
Are your employees making the most of shared parental leave?
Despite shared parental leave being introduced in 2015, only 2% of those couples eligible for the leave have chosen to…
Are you up-to-date with the rules and requirements of the new Apprenticeship levy?
In April 2017, the government introduced an apprenticeship levy; a tax on UK employers to support the funding of apprentices.…
Watch out – you may see more employment claims being brought by employees!
On 26 July 2017 the Supreme Court handed down a landmark judgment, finding that tribunal fees for those bringing employment…
Are you able to ban an employee from wearing a headscarf at work?
In short the answer is yes but only in certain cases. In the recent months there has been a high…
Moore Blatch advises on SecureData’s purchase of Cygnia Technologies
SecureData, a leading cybersecurity services and solutions provider, has acquired cybersecurity company, Cygnia Technologies Ltd, with the legal advice being…
Pimlico Plumbers & Anor v Smith: when is a plumber a worker?
Determining ‘worker’ status has been a major focus in the world of employment law recently, with several high-profile cases considering…
Apprenticeship levy- Are you prepared?
As you may have seen in the media recently, despite Brexit, the new apprenticeship levy (“Levy”) is still expected to…
Do you operate a holiday year from 1st April – 31st March? If so watch out!
Attention employers! Due to the way that the Easter bank holidays fall this year and next year, it is anticipated…
The National Minimum Wage – make sure your business doesn’t end up on the government’s name and shame list!
On 15 February 2017, the government ‘named and shamed’ more than 350 employers who had underpaid their workers the national…
Dewhurst v CitySprint UK Ltd- latest ‘gig economy’ case on worker status
Last year an employment tribunal heard the case of Aslam, Farrar and Others v Uber where it was held the…
Jeremy Corbyn calls for laws restricting boardroom pay
According to think-tank High Pay Centre (HPC), by midday on Wednesday 4 January 2017, Britain’s top bosses had earnt more…
