There has been a case about sleep-in care workers that has gone from Tribunal, to the Appeal Tribunal, to the Court of Appeal. It has been going on for quite a while, and looks as though it will [...]
Picture by Getty Images taken from BBC News BBC News reports today on the latest case on employment status. The claimant is Jess Varnish; a European gold medallist in team sprint cycling. The [...]
Who likes a hug? Well, probably all of us in the right place and at the right time. The question I have to ask; is work the right place and the right time? We have recently seen in the news [...]
There are a number of maternity rights that all employers and employees should know about. With the end of September being the most popular time to give birth, we would like to make sure that [...]
It is always a shame to hear about a Tribunal case that describes a 17 year-old girl being subjected to sexual harassment. This case involved a girl who worked at a Pizza Hut delivery branch as [...]
According to a case that was reported in August 2018 a refusal to postpone a disciplinary could make the dismissal unfair. In the case of Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith the employee, Mrs Smith, [...]
We all see fellow workers going outside for cigarette breaks during the working day. But what if you are a non-smoker? Can you still take the same sort of short breaks? I have found an [...]
Imagine sitting in a hot office trying to work and finding it hard to concentrate. Is there any law that says how hot that office should be? ACAS and HSE guidance is helpful in answering this [...]
The case of Gary Smith v Pimlico Plumbers reached the dizzy heights of the Supreme Court. Which way did the Supreme Court decide? Well, the judgment was – once again – in favour of [...]
A company in Oldham and its managing director have been convicted of 16 workplace pension offences. They had deliberately failed to automatically enrol 36 staff into a workplace pension. In [...]