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Following a consultation, the Presidents of the Employment Tribunal have issued revised guidance on the amount of compensation payable for injury to feelings in discrimination…

In October 2016, the Prime Minister commissioned Matthew Taylor, a former policy chief to Tony Blair, to look at how employment practices need to change in order to keep pace with…

Last year, the Court of Appeal upheld the view of the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal that the Working Time Regulations 1998 can be interpreted so as to…

‘Pulling a sickie’ is viewed by some workers as not particularly serious – however, an important Employment Appeal Tribunal decision has emphasised that such…

A black computer consultant and business data analyst, whose employment with a high street bank was summarily terminated when he was less than three months into his contract, has…

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 provide vital protection to workers affected by commercial decisions over which they have no control.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that a night worker who lived in at the residential care home where he was employed was not entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage…

A lack of precision in employment contracts, particularly when it comes to calculation of staff bonuses, can poison the atmosphere of any business. So it was in the case of one…

A veteran prison officer who was sacked after the autoimmune disorder from which she suffered prevented her from working full time was discriminated against due to her disability…

A Church of England rector who claimed to have been unfairly dismissed and penalised for whistleblowing was neither an employee nor a worker within the meaning of the Employment…

The first commencement order made under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 has banned exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts with effect from 26 May 2015.

A businessman who worked full time as a director but was paid not a penny for his toil – was nevertheless entitled to full employment rights, the Court of Appeal has…