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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...

The High Court has recently decided that, to comply with EU law, important provisions in the Employment Rights Act which protect employees from victimisation on certain health and safety grounds should also extend to workers...

In what is possibly the first decision of its kind, an employment tribunal has decided that an employee with range of common menopausal symptoms was entitled to the protection of the Equality Act as a disabled person...

Those following the Priti Patel news story in recent days might be forgiven for assuming that bullying and harassment needs to be intentional...

The latest age discrimination decision from Court of Appeal is about the lawfulness of changes to the pay structure of the Probation Service in the early days of the public sector pay freeze in 2011...