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A school has been found to be in breach of the Equality Act when dismissing an English teacher because of an error of judgement that it thought was unconnected with his disability...

The Supreme Court has decided that when written notice is given to end a contract of employment, there is an implied term that the notice period does not start to run until the employee has a reasonable opportunity to read the notice...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that there is no general rule that an employer is only required to consider bumping if it is raised by the employee...

The Supreme Court has ruled that it was reasonable for a school disciplinary panel to dismiss a head teacher because she had failed to disclose her friendship with a man convicted of making indecent images of children...

Mills & Reeve's health and care update has recently reported on a case where an NHS foundation trust was held to have unfairly dismissed a locum consultant as a result of failing to renew her contract...

To mark the start of 2018, we have put together our review of the past year. We have selected the topics that we think have most engaged employment practitioners over the past 12 months and which are likely to continue to be significant in the year ahead...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now upheld last year’s employment tribunal ruling that Uber drivers were workers, not self-employed contractors. However, a further appeal to the Court of Appeal seems likely...

In two Polish references about changing terms and conditions for hospital staff, the European Court of Justice has revisited the question of when consultation about collective redundancies should start...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has suggested that the most accurate word to describe a disciplinary investigation that paves the way for a fair dismissal is “sufficient”...

The Government has now published a revised draft of new legislation which removes the current tax exemption from non-contractual notice pay, where this is part of a termination payment worth less than £30,000...

In this final posting in our blog series on the Taylor Review, we look at its proposals for strengthening employee engagement...

In this first of a series of blogs on the Taylor Review, we look at its proposals to create greater clarity around the status of individuals in the UK labour market...