Disability discrimination

An article in the Times recently explains that 400,000 employees left their jobs last year, ...

Disciplinary and grievance hearings

Here are some general pointers for handling a disciplinary investigation or grievance hearing: UK employment ...

Tribunal fees

Note: a subsequent legal change has affected the accuracy of this material. If you cannot ...

Rules on ex-offenders are relaxed

From March 2014, the rules on ex-offenders or ‘spent convictions’ have changed in favour of ...

UK employment law – redundancy

A recent case on redundancy payments disappointed, but did not surprise us. We think our ...

Zero-hours contracts

According to the Working Families association many on zero-hours contracts are unwilling to access existing ...

Is caste discrimination unlawful?

The Equality Act protects us from discrimination related to sex, age, race, colour, nationality, ethnic ...

Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment seems to be becoming a common problem within the workplace.  According to the ...

Whistle-blowing

Whistle-blower unfairly dismissed A West Midlands doctor won a complex employment tribunal claim, we read ...

Restrictive covenants

This is a story about restrictive covenants, an area that trips up more employers than ...