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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that workers who were supplied by an agency to work exclusively and extensively for the Royal Mail were protected by the Agency Workers Regulations...

Pressure is growing on the UK Government to take more effective action to address racial inequality. There have been a number of reports and enquiries on this subject in recent years, but in most cases little progress on implementation...

The legal framework has now been published for the new, more flexible version of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme which launches on 1 July. This is in the form of a third Treasury Direction, published on 26 June...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that significant enhancements to terms and conditions, agreed by the transferor shortly before a TUPE transfer, were void and so did not bind the transferee...

The High Court has ruled that an employer remained legally liable to pay the remaining sums due under a COT3 settlement, despite the employee’s breach of a confidentiality clause in the settlement agreement...

Three new or revised employment tribunal practice directions have been published in recent weeks, as the system continues to grapple with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic...

The European Court of Justice has given some important new guidance on how to draw the dividing line between a worker and a self-employed contractor in claims seeking to assert workers’ rights such as holiday pay...

The Taylor Review and Good Work Plan have led to a large number of proposals and consultations over the last few years. A number of these consultations have focused on proposals to better support working families...

Employers will have been sent links on Friday evening by HMRC to some newly published calculation guidance to assist them with making claims under the Scheme in time for the opening of the portal today...

The Treasury has now published a formal direction to HMRC which sets out the legal basis for the administration of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.  The previously published guidance (now revised for the fourth time) needs to be read in the light of this direction...

The measures being taken to try to reduce the spread of Covid-19 have meant that more employees are working from home than ever before. For some, home working is a concept they were already used to. For others, it is a big change which presents many challenges...

A number of clarifications on pension contributions to defined contribution (DC) schemes have now been made following the announcement of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS)...