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The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Mencap case confirms that employers do not have to pay their workers the national minimum wage unless they are awake for the purposes of working...

The Government has published a Statement of Changes to the UK Immigration Rules which contains changes to work and study visa routes from April 2021...

In two related appeals, the Court of Appeal has explored the limits that employers can legitimately place on the freedom of expression of their senior staff...

Now that the guidance has been updated following the Chancellor’s announcement in last week’s budget, we know a little more about how the latest extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will work...

The Supreme Court has confirmed that Yaseen Aslam and a small group of other drivers had the status of workers, not self-employed contractors, when working for Uber...

The Treasury has issued a Direction which disapplies the Regulations which introduced a cap on public sector exit payments in November last year...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision to reject an employer’s defence to a racial harassment claim, based on training which had been delivered several years before the events in question and was “clearly stale”...

After giving mixed messages last month about a planned review of workers’ rights, the new Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has now conceded that the review “is no longer happening” in his department...

A decision from the Employment Appeal Tribunal last month, about whether interim relief should be available in discrimination claims, has highlighted the significant benefits of this remedy for claimants...

To mark the beginning of the new year, we have prepared a review of the key developments of 2020 and reflected on their continued significance into 2021...

The expiry of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 saw the end of EU freedom of movement to and from the UK...

A recent ruling from the Employment Appeal tribunal is a reminder that, where a business does not close completely, the statutory definition of redundancy focuses on the number of employees required to do work of a particular kind...