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An employer had infringed trade union legislation when it made a direct pay offer to its workforce before it had completed the collective bargaining process...

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that a courier, who worked ad hoc shifts delivering parcels by moped, should have been classified as a worker...

Just a few days before World Menopause Day, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has given its first ever ruling on whether typical menopausal symptoms can amount to a disability...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld two separate employment tribunal decisions about Oxford University’s compulsory retirement age for academic staff, even though they reached opposite conclusions on whether or not it was justified...

An employment tribunal has upheld a claim for indirect disability discrimination brought by a worker caring for a disabled adult...

Yesterday’s consultation on flexible working explores five ways current legislation could be changed to support “genuine two sided flexibility”. It also sets out the Government’s other plans for making flexible working “part of the workplace DNA”...

In a case with highly unusual facts, the EAT has upheld a tribunal’s ruling that the dismissal of an employee director had been fair, despite the failure to provide him with an opportunity to appeal...

According to a recent decision from the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the third requirement (relating to auxiliary aids) compromised in the duty to make reasonable adjustments can often be overlooked...

Two recent employment tribunal decisions have shed light on the way employers are expected to approach redundancy dismissals during the currency of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...

Operational guidance for the vaccination of people working or deployed in care homes was published on 4 August...

ACAS recently published practical guidance for employers on hybrid working...

Last week the Government published its response to the 2019 consultation on sexual harassment in the workplace...