Author Archives: Gareth
Wider flexible working rights starting July 2014
From July 2014 employees will have wider flexible working rights i.e. An employee with half ...
Jun
Whistleblowing
At Hatton James, we act for both employees and employers. We find employees often have ...
Jun
Home-working
A report on home-working by the Trades Unions Congress tells us that the number of people ...
May
Sexual harassment
We read with interest a BBC news story about the celebrity chef sexual harassment claim ...
May
Settlement agreements
A US teen who learned that her father had settled an age discrimination claim against ...
Apr
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 ...
Apr
TUPE – parties gambled and lost
With service provision changes, TUPE does not apply if the contract being moved between contractors ...
Apr
Redundancy process case
A council found itself liable in employment tribunal claims after a restructuring exercise in which it failed to explain ...
Apr
US sex-change discrimination case
One in 10,000 of us was ‘born in the wrong body’. Some face discrimination as ...
Apr