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An employment tribunal has ruled that a deputy head teacher who was sacked after giving former pupils a tour of her school building was unfairly dismissed...
Business Secretary Vince Cable has today announced plans to ban exclusivity clauses which prevent people on zero hours’ contracts from working for more than one employer...
A survey just published claims that a third of people struggle to cope at work because of depression, stress or burn out...
Trade unions and employment law experts together are calling for a review of tribunal fees as new figures show a 70% drop in the number of cases taken to employment tribunal since they were introduced last year...
A ruling at the Employment Appeal Tribunal yesterday means that some five million workers could get extra holiday pay in future...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced that all Civil Service employees will be entitled to full parental pay from April 2015, when they choose to share parental leave. Currently, only mothers are entitled to full pay in this situation...
The European Court of Justice, the highest court of the EU, has ruled that obesity can constitute a disability – in some circumstances, where it could hinder ‘full and effective participation’ at work.
The trade union Unison has again been unsuccessful in its bid to overturn employment tribunal fees, but has been granted permission to appeal. The union’s first application to overturn employment tribunal fees was also rejected in February.
A report launched by the Confederation of British Industry at their recent conference has called on the government to improve living standards by increasing the national insurance threshold and also by extending free childcare to working parents of one and two year olds...
In a recent announcement, the Government is increasing the amount of compensation payable for employment law claims...
An employment tribunal has ruled that a heart specialist was unfairly dismissed after he raised concerns about a hospital’s failings which led to a patient’s death, including staffing shortages, workplace bullying and ‘appalling’ equipment...
A study by ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) has found that agency workers are unaware of their employment rights, or and afraid of asserting them...
A new campaign has been launched for women who have been discriminated against at work while pregnant or due to having had a baby...
Good legal advice is increasingly crucial if working mothers are to avoid discrimination as they return from maternity leave, claims a Leicestershire employment lawyer...
The Chancellor announced yesterday that shared parental leave and pay will be extended to working grandparents, in order to increase flexibility for working parents and help them with the costs of childcare during the first year after their baby is born...
Far from being confined to the playground, bullying is very much a feature of some people’s working lives as adults and can make the workplace a miserable and tense environment...
Dr Raj Mattu was employed as a cardiologist at the Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry in 2001, when he made ‘protected disclosures’ about dangerous overcrowding in patient bays which could have led to avoidable deaths...
A study by business experts has found that women suffer a ‘motherhood penalty’ which leaves them with poorer pay and lesser job prospects for decades after taking maternity leave...
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled that employers are allowed to read personal messages sent by staff during working hours over private messaging platforms...
Gender pay reporting is a regulatory framework announced by the Government, it means that businesses with over 250 employees will berequired to publish the mean and median gender pay gaps as well as the number of men and women in each quartile of their pay distribution...
Social media is massive and very difficult to escape – it’s everywhere. Businesses use it to promote their services and individuals use it to chat with friends or to mull over the events of that day...
In 2015, the average salary for men was £29,934 and £24,202 for women – a difference of £5,732 per year...
A recent case at the Employment Appeals Tribunal found that it does not count as discrimination if an employer discontinues an employee’s childcare vouchers during their maternity leave...
The Ministry of Justice has published figures to show that since the introduction of fees payable for employment tribunals the success rate has fallen. Based on 21,500 cases in the third quarter of 2015/16 the figures show that 6% of cases were successful and 6% were not, whereas in 2012/13, 11% of claims were successful and 7% were unsuccessful...
As we have previously reported, the national living wage is going up from April 2016. Currently the rate is £6.70 per hour which will increase to £7.20 per hour next month for workers over the age of 25...
Jonas Gutierrez was playing for Newcastle United football club when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2013. When he was well enough to return to the club after treatment he was loaned out to Norwich City for the remainder of that season...
Philip Rostant, who is a leading judge that specialises in employment law, has said that the only way to deal with discrimination of overweight people in the workplace is to introduce legislation so that they are able to sue their colleagues if they are rude or abusive about their weight...
Whistleblowing is one of the most complex and riveting areas of Employment Law. It’s an area that gains a lot of press coverage because of the often high profile nature of issues involved. Edward Snowden, the CIA whistle-blower..
Research has shown that bosses and line managers who encourage their staff to continually go above and beyond their contractual duties at work could actually be having a detrimental effect on their health.
Recently there has been a story in the news about a 27 year old woman who began a temping job at a prestigious London firm. The lady arrived on her first day wearing flat shoes as she knew that part of her job would require her to be on her feet for most of the day...
The Citizens Advice Bureau have recently reported a 25% increase of queries from women who are experiencing discrimination in the work place because they are pregnant or since they have returned to work after their maternity leave...
A Yorkshire based nurse took her local ambulance service, who are part of the NHS Trust, to an Employment Tribunal after she received a conditional offer of employment which was withdrawn once they received her reference and an Occupational Therapy report.
This year sees the start of Ramadan’s religious observance on for 30 days from 6th June. Ramadan it is a dedicated time in the Muslim calendar to focus on spirituality during which they cannot consume food between the sun rising and falling each day...
A Leicester based company have sacked a member of their staff who was a whistle-blower. He wanted to expose their ill treatment of staff and the tactics they had developed to avoid paying the national living wage...
Retail giant Sport Direct has been accused by MP’s of treating their staff like “commodities rather than human beings” further to a report carried out by the Business, Innovation and Skills committee...
We have moved! The paint is dry, the boxes have been unpacked and the system has been successfully set up in our new open plan head office on Dominus Way...
Most people will have seen the Deliveroo vehicles around and about recently. They are a symbol of the modern economy in that they allow for a fast and flexible way of providing food to customers. This flexibility has not however been reflected in notable warranties and indemnities that have been placed into the contracts of Deliveroo workers...
MP’s have reacted to the dramatic increase in the discrimination that pregnant women and new mothers face in the work place...
In recent months a number of employers have been accused of not paying staff minimum wage include Deliveroo, Uber, Hermes and Sports Direct. Nearly all the staff of the first three businesses are classed as ‘self employed workers’...
Heavyweight UK supermarket Asda have had to respond to more than 9,500 of their female staff who have complained that they are paid between £1 and £3 less per hour than their male counterparts who work in the company warehouses and distribution facilities...
A London employment tribunal has ruled that drivers for the ride-hailing app will be entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the national minimum wage, dealing a major blow to Uber...
Returning to work after being diagnosed with cancer might be a daunting experience but you should be able to rely on support from your employer and colleagues, yet research from the charity Macmillan shows almost one-fifth of people diagnosed with cancer face work place discrimination...
Why is it that when performance is mentioned in a business environment, people become panicked and worried? Has the word performance management been negatively associated with business development and regularly misused...
Contractual documentation has revealed temporary ASOS warehouse staff receiving lesser wages for three months than regulations allow. The policy could potentially mean that the retailer has avoided paying out thousands of pounds to its temporary staff....
This week is national diabetes week at the theme this year is ‘Know Diabetes, Fight Diabetes’.
A 24 year old man died at a party hosted by his employer at his home in 2015. The mans widow is now seeking £1 million in compensation for her loss and for the wages her husband would have earned during his lifetime.
From 1st January 2017 negotiations began to determine the rights of French employees to ignore their work phones after the working day. The advent of smartphones mean that staff always have access to their work which in turn makes it harder for them to completely switch off when they are at home.
Generally speaking, bosses do not have a problem with their staff being in relationships – providing their status bares no affect on them carrying out their work.
