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A recent ECJ ruling suggests it is possible to split the hours of a transferring employee between different transferees...

In the last five months the Employment Tribunals have had to dramatically change the way they deal with cases as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic...

The Government has published new legislation on a week’s pay which comes into effect on 31 July. Its aim is to clarify the dismissal-related rights of employees who have been furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which ends on 31 October...

The Government has published further details about the new immigration system that is due to be implemented from 1 January 2021.  The Further Details statement builds on the policy statement that was issued in February 2020...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that workers who were supplied by an agency to work exclusively and extensively for the Royal Mail were protected by the Agency Workers Regulations...

Pressure is growing on the UK Government to take more effective action to address racial inequality. There have been a number of reports and enquiries on this subject in recent years, but in most cases little progress on implementation...

The legal framework has now been published for the new, more flexible version of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme which launches on 1 July. This is in the form of a third Treasury Direction, published on 26 June...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that significant enhancements to terms and conditions, agreed by the transferor shortly before a TUPE transfer, were void and so did not bind the transferee...

The High Court has ruled that an employer remained legally liable to pay the remaining sums due under a COT3 settlement, despite the employee’s breach of a confidentiality clause in the settlement agreement...

Three new or revised employment tribunal practice directions have been published in recent weeks, as the system continues to grapple with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic...

The European Court of Justice has given some important new guidance on how to draw the dividing line between a worker and a self-employed contractor in claims seeking to assert workers’ rights such as holiday pay...

The Taylor Review and Good Work Plan have led to a large number of proposals and consultations over the last few years. A number of these consultations have focused on proposals to better support working families...