Employment and HR

• Gender Diversity Bias Claim Fails to Convince Court

  • Posted2 September 2020

  Many employers are taking laudable steps to increase diversity in their workforces by recruiting more women. However, as a case involving an unsuccessful candidate for a BBC radio broadcasting position...

  Read more

• Selecting Staff for Redundancy? It Pays to Take Professional Advice First

  • Posted13 August 2020

  The process of selecting staff for redundancy is fraught with legal pitfalls and seeking professional advice at the outset can in the long run save you from serious financial and...

  Read more

• Worker or Independent Contractor? European Court of Justice Guidance

  • Posted3 August 2020

  The vexed distinction between ‘workers’ and ‘independent contractors’ could hardly be more important for many businesses but remains perennially controversial. An important ruling of the Court of Justice of the...

  Read more

• Harvey Weinstein Case Exposes Wrinkle in Employment Tribunal Rules

  • Posted16 July 2020

  Sexual harassment proceedings against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein gave rise to a thorny jurisdictional issue that threatened to undermine the power of Employment Tribunals (ETs) to make evidence disclosure...

  Read more

• Fixed-Term Employment Contracts Mean What They Say

  • Posted2 July 2020

  Fixed-term employment contracts mean what they say and expire at the end of their terms without the need for any notice of termination. The Court of Appeal so ruled in...

  Read more

• COVID-19 – Court of Appeal Rules on Status of Furloughed Employees

  • Posted12 June 2020

  Many companies have entered administration in response to the COVID-19 crisis but have retained furloughed employees in the hope that they will emerge from lockdown to a brighter future. In...

  Read more