Employment and HR

• Airline Pilot Strikes Crucial Blow for Trade Union Rights

  • Posted30 January 2018

  It has long been unlawful to refuse to employ someone because of his or her trade union membership. However, in a ground-breaking decision, a tribunal has extended that protection to...

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• Recruitment Vetting Must Be Reasonable and Respect Human Rights

  • Posted19 January 2018

  The police and other public authorities have recruitment vetting policies in place that are designed to ensure that staff taken on are people of integrity. However, as one High Court...

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• Workplace Mobility Clauses – EAT Guidance

  • Posted8 January 2018

  Mobility of labour is vital to any modern economy and many employment contracts require staff to relocate from one workplace to another if their employer’s business demands it. One such...

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• Restrictive Covenants and Unlawful Restraint of Trade

  • Posted19 December 2017

  Restrictive covenants in employment contracts are worthless if they are so broad as to amount to an unlawful restraint of trade. The Court of Appeal reiterated that point in enabling...

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• Employment Status – Uber Must Take its Case to the Court of Appeal

  • Posted6 December 2017

  After the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the decision of the Employment Tribunal that Uber drivers are workers, rather than being self-employed, and thus have the right to be paid the...

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• Part-Time Workers and Discrimination

  • Posted5 December 2017

  The Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (PTWR), which came into force on 1 July 2000, established a minimum standard of fairness for part-timers so that they...

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