Category Archives: Miscellaneous

16 businesses face £½m fines for employing illegal workers

16 businesses have recently been found to be in breach of immigration laws, as between ...

English Apprenticeships: avoiding giving ‘enhanced’ employment protection

Training apprentices is a great way for employers to mould and develop their staff to ...

New report reveals current modern slavery checks are not ‘fit for purpose’

Following the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) shock revelation that Modern Slavery and Trafficking is affecting ...

The employment crisis in the social care sector

The employment crisis in the social care sector Lily Wilde, Warwick University, Faculty of Law, ...

New compensation in discrimination cases

Before December 2002, there were no clear guidelines for the amount of compensation to be ...

Mistakes in Acas early conciliation

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

Are our employment tribunals safe?

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

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 ...