Author Archives: Gareth

Basic right no.1- right to an employment contract

Every employee has certain basic rights in UK employment law. We discuss them in a series ...

Pregnant barmaid forced to leave her job, uses Solihull employment lawyers to bring claim

We read in a recent news article about a bar manager who was forced to quit ...

EU rules that employers can read private messages of staff

You may have read in a recent BBC report that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled ...

Employment solicitors welcome employee-friendly case on absence dismissals

Employment solicitors have been eagerly awaiting a Court of Appeal case on whether employees who have lots of disability-related ...

Key employment law changes in 2016

As the year end approaches, we have listed the employment law changes that we’ll see in ...

We settle whistleblowing case

We have just settled a whistleblowing case for a hard-working care manager who complained about her ...

Teacher wins £100k and loses much of it

A teacher has won over £100k and lost much of it in an employment tribunal ...

New guidance on zero hours contracts

Acas has published some new guidance on zero hours contracts. This is the term for casual employment agreements where ...

Do you lose out on working hours when the clocks go back?

This weekend, the clocks go back an hour, giving most of us an extra hour ...

New era

Note: this post was originally from 2014. The 2015 update is in blue below A new era for Hatton ...