Blog archive

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...

A recent High Court ruling involving a primary school teacher is a reminder that suspension, if not handled correctly, can amount to a fundamental breach of contract. That can make it possible for an employee to resign in response and claim constructive dismissal...

The High Court has ruled that amendments made to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme last year were unlawful and accordingly of no legal effect. These changes were introduced to reduce the value of voluntary exit, voluntary redundancy, compulsory redundancy and inefficiency payments...

The latest employment law decision from the UK’s top court has done much to clarify how the law on indirect discrimination should be applied in practice...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge to the statutory union recognition procedures, which allow an employer’s existing relationship with a “sweetheart union” to block a recognition bid from an independent union...

Earlier this year we explored the impact of two recent Supreme Court decisions on vicarious liability in this blog posting, where we focussed on the wider variety of workplace relationships now likely to be within its scope...