August 1st, 2018
Can an individual employed as 'bank staff', with no guaranteed hours, be an 'employee'? Ms Lane-Angell worked for Hafal assisting vulnerable adults in police detention. Her contract said there were...
August 1st, 2018
How easy is it for an employer to impose a pay freeze? In Abrahall v Nottingham City Council, the Court of Appeal decided that a group of employees had not...
August 1st, 2018
Sections 43A-43L of the Employment Rights Act 1996 protect workers who report malpractice (a 'disclosure') by their employer and are then treated badly. For a disclosure to be protected it...
August 1st, 2018
High sickness absence can place huge pressure on a business. How easy is it to take disciplinary action against a disabled employee for high sickness absence? The Employment Appeal Tribunal...
August 1st, 2018
The law on constructive dismissal has been under the spotlight recently. Sometimes, employees claim constructive dismissal because of a 'last straw' which pushes them over the edge. The courts have...
July 18th, 2018
There has been a lot of publicity lately about the employment status of individuals working in the gig economy. Employees and workers have more rights than the genuinely self-employed, so...
July 15th, 2018
An employer will not be liable for disability discrimination unless it knew about the employee's disability (or should have known about it). But what if an employer disciplines someone for...
April 1st, 2015
The changes to Employment Law coming into effect as of April are as follows: 1. Shared Parental Leave and Pay The new system of shared parental leave and pay is...
December 20th, 2014
Combined with the news on early conciliation results, Government statistics also show that Employment Tribunal claims for 2013/14 fell by 45 per cent compared to 2012/13. To put the overall...
December 18th, 2014
The Government has published a guide for employers on the new statutory right to time off to accompany a pregnant woman to ante-natal appointments. The new right, which comes into...
