Employment and HR

• ‘Good Work’ – The Taylor Review

  • Posted14 July 2017

  In October 2016, the Prime Minister commissioned Matthew Taylor, a former policy chief to Tony Blair, to look at how employment practices need to change in order to keep pace...

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• Supreme Court Rules on the Pension Rights of Gay Partners

  • Posted13 July 2017

  The Supreme Court has handed down a ruling which means that all married gay couples and civil partners should receive equal pension rights. Under Paragraph 18 of Schedule 9...

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• Supreme Court Clarifies Law on Indirect Discrimination

  • Posted6 July 2017

  The Supreme Court has now handed down its judgment in an important case, Essop and Others v Home Office (UK Border Agency), brought by a group of workers who claimed...

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• Early Conciliation and Second Certificates

  • Posted21 June 2017

  For Employment Tribunal (ET) claims lodged on or after 6 May 2014, it is a legal requirement, unless an exemption applies, for the claimant to first notify the Advisory, Conciliation...

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• Mother Suffered Discrimination After Part-Time Return From Maternity Leave

  • Posted8 June 2017

  The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against or treat a woman unfavourably because of her pregnancy, or because she has given birth recently, is breastfeeding or is...

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• Organised Grouping of NHS Carers Embroiled in TUPE Dispute

  • Posted30 May 2017

  Whether or not the employment of an organised grouping of workers has been transferred from one employer to another for the purposes of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)...

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