Wider flexible working rights starting July 2014

From July 2014 employees will have wider flexible working rights  i.e. An employee with half ...

Whistleblowing

At Hatton James, we act for both employees and employers. We find employees often have ...

Home-working

A report on home-working by the Trades Unions Congress tells us that the number of people ...

Sexual harassment

We read with interest a BBC news story about the celebrity chef sexual harassment claim ...

Settlement agreements

A US teen who learned that her father had settled an age discrimination claim against ...

Flexible working

ACAS has published guidance on Handling flexible working requests. Almost all of us now have ...

Sex discrimination

We saw an article in The Times this week about a UN report finding the ...

TUPE – parties gambled and lost

With service provision changes, TUPE does not apply if the contract being moved between contractors ...

Redundancy process case

A council found itself liable in employment tribunal claims after a restructuring exercise in which it failed to explain ...

US sex-change discrimination case

One in 10,000 of us was ‘born in the wrong body’. Some face discrimination as ...