Blog archive

Five new employment law consultations were published in July, as well as two responses to consultation.  They can all be linked two overlapping themes which were priorities during Theresa May’s tenure at number 10: promoting “good work” and tackling gender inequality in the workplace...

Over the past few days the Government has launched three new consultations which will run over the summer...

Last week’s decision from the Employment Appeal Tribunal gives some useful guidance about the rights and wrongs of recording workplace meetings...

The Supreme Court has reversed the Court of Appeal and decided that two words could be removed from a non-compete clause to make in enforceable. This is the first case of this nature to have reached our top Court for 100 years or so...

The Court of Appeal has decided that our trade union legislation does not prohibit an employer appealing directly to its workforce on a single occasion about a change to a particular contractual term, provided that it is willing to continue to negotiate with the union in relation to that term in the future...

The Court of Appeal has today dismissed an appeal by the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust and ruled that regularly worked voluntary overtime should be reflected in the calculation of its workers’ holiday pay...

Last month’s decision from the Court of Appeal should dispel any remaining doubts about whether employers are legally required to pay fathers taking shared parental leave as generously as mothers on maternity leave...

The European Court of Justice has ruled that there is an EU-wide requirement under the Working Time Directive for employers to maintain an “objective, reliable and accessible system” to measure working time, including normal working time and daily and weekly rest breaks...

In a recent decision involving a warehouse worker in Rotherham, the EAT has set an important limit on the extent of an employer’s liability for disability discrimination...

The High Court has ruled out the possibility of the University of London being compelled to recognise a union representing a group of outsourced workers performing services at its premises. Mills & Reeve (David Faulkner) represented the University in these proceedings...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld a tribunal’s ruling that serious shortcomings in the way disciplinary proceedings were handled supported an inference of direct discrimination because of sexual orientation...

In an appeal in which Mills & Reeve has been representing the employer, the Court of Appeal has given some helpful clarification about when internal disciplinary proceedings should be postponed where there is a parallel criminal investigation...