Employment Law

• Consultation on extending redundancy protection for women and new parents

  • PostedFebruary 22, 2019

  On 25th January 2019, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (‘BEIS’) opened a consultation on extending redundancy protection for women and new parents. The consultation document can be found...

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• BBC analysis suggests that Gender Pay Gap is growing

  • PostedFebruary 20, 2019

  The BBC has completed analysis on the private companies that have published their latest gender pay gap figures and notes that 4 in 10 companies are reporting wider gaps than...

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• When does an employer have knowledge of an employee’s disability under the Equality Act 2010?

  • PostedFebruary 19, 2019

  This was the question addressed by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the recent case of Lamb v The Garrard Academy. An individual is considered disabled if they have a physical...

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• Asda loses appeal in initial stage of equal pay case

  • PostedJanuary 31, 2019

  In a judgment handed down by the Court of Appeal this morning, it was ruled that supermarket staff (mostly women) and warehouse staff (mostly men) working at supermarket giant Asda...

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• Update on the EU Settlement Scheme

  • PostedJanuary 21, 2019

  Further to our article below, Theresa May has this afternoon (21 January 2019) announced in her Brexit statement that the £65 fee which millions of EU citizens were going to...

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• Calculating holiday pay for zero hours, term-time only employees: what you need to know following the case of Brazel v The Harpur Trust UKEAT/0102/17/LA

  • PostedJanuary 11, 2019

  In the case of Brazel v The Harpur Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the ACAS guidance in respect of paying part-time employees and workers on irregular hours a...

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• 5 key employment law changes for 2019

  • PostedJanuary 2, 2019

  1. Itemised payslips from April 2019 Employers will be required to provide itemised payslips for employees and workers with effect from 6th April 2019. The payslips must show the number...

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• Latest on the EU Settlement Scheme

  • PostedDecember 21, 2018

  There are now plenty of businesses preparing for Brexit, despite no-one still being quite sure what the final deal will look like. With this grows concern over the many staff...

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• 1,700 workers facing redundancy due to government decision

  • PostedDecember 18, 2018

  The decision by the coalition government to leave more than 1,700 members of staff facing redundancy has been condemned by trade union GMB. Some 36 Remploy factories all over the...

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• Derby council redundancies ‘not necessary’, says Unison

  • PostedDecember 18, 2018

  Derby City Council has been criticised by Unison for aiming to make 500 employees redundant. Some 330 members of staff have already lost their roles and the union claimed there...

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• BAE staff vote for pay cut to avoid redundancy

  • PostedDecember 18, 2018

  Members of staff at BAE Systems have voted to take a pay cut in order to prevent the need for employees to face redundancy at the company. A ballot was...

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• If it’s broke, be sure to fix it

  • PostedNovember 22, 2018

  In August 2018, the Government announced a crackdown on rogue directors seeking to trade insolvent companies. With high profile businesses still dominating the headlines for poor financial performance, Alexander Curnow...

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