Author Archives: Gareth

Mistakes in Acas early conciliation

A case earlier last  month has highlighted a pitfall for a claimant when making mistakes ...

Employment solicitors welcome end to employment tribunal fees

In news that will delight claimants (and employment solicitors!) there will be no more employment tribunal ...

Are our employment tribunals safe?

The Government has announced plans to close Bedford Employment Tribunal from September. After closing 140 ...

National minimum wage and self-employment

Since the revelation that “49% of self-employed workers (4.8 million people) earned less than £310 ...

Jason’s age discrimination settlement agreement

From time to time we will tell you about a Birmingham employment law case we ...

Religious discrimination risk as employer bans beards

A construction firm named The Mears Group (‘Mears’) has created a policy banning its workers ...

Landmark victory in sex discrimination claim

We learned of a sex discrimination claim that is interesting. In April 2015 the Government introduced ...

Brexit to increase competition for employees

Hays Recruitment have carried out a survey of more than 1000 HR professionals. Their report ...

Harry’s heart condition

From time to time we tell you about a Birmingham employment law case we have ...

Zero-hours contracts after the general election

Over the past few years, zero-hours contracts have caused a lot of controversy. Some laud ...