Pam Loch: Managing mass redundancies in the age of employment law reform 2019
How can a company ensure redundancies it makes are based on a fair process?
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Tag: Employee Law
Rebecca Torrey: Conducting an effective workplace investigation
Rebecca Torrey discusses how to conduct a successful workplace investigation.
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Businesses urged to prepare for new GDPR legislation
With the countdown to the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) well underway, audit, tax and consulting firm RSM, is urging companies doing business in the EU to complete their preparation for the impending rule changes, to help mitigate substantial financial and reputational risks arising from issues of non-compliance.
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Ex- BHS workers share payout over failed redundancy process
A group of former BHS workers have collectively won up to £1m in compensation over the way they were made redundant when the retailer collapsed.
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Uber president resigns amongst multiple controversies
Uber president Jeff Jones has left the taxi-hailing firm Uber after less than six months in the job.
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Oxford comma aids case in overtime pay
The much-disputed Oxford comma has helped a group of dairy drivers in a dispute with a company about overtime pay.
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Headscarves can be banned at work, EU court rules
The European Court of Justice has ruled that employers are entitled to ban workers from wearing headscarves to work.
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France is forcing its employees to power down: Will it work?
Alexandra Levit is an author, Speaker, Consultant, Influencer, and Expert in all things workplace; Partner with PeopleResults. Here she discusses the new ‘Right to Disconnect’ law in France and how it has affected employees.
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Pimlico Plumbers loses appeal in landmark gig economy case
An ex-employee of Pimlico Plumbers has won a legal battle for working rights in the latest significant court ruling over employee status in the modern workplace.
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Salary sacrifice schemes discussed in Autumn Statement
Employee salary sacrifice schemes such as gym memberships, phones and insurance will no longer be tax-free, the chancellor Philip Hammond has said in the Autumn Statement
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CitySprint faces tribunal over freelance worker rights
Delivery company CitySprint is the latest “gig economy” firm facing a legal challenge to treat its freelance couriers as workers.
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Debra Gers: Managing sickness absence and wellbeing benefits everyone
There is a huge amount of legislation that sets out employers obligations. Debra Gers from leading law firm
Blake Morgan gives us the all important employee law perspective on workplace wellbeing.
Tesco faces legal action from staff in pay dispute
Tesco workers are taking legal action against their employer on grounds of age and gender discrimination after the supermarket cut its pay rates for working anti-social hours.
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Uber drivers await verdict on employment status
Tens of thousands of Uber drivers in the UK could qualify for holiday and sick pay when an employment tribunal reconvenes in London today.
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Hannah Robbins: To what extent are your off the record discussions with employees protected?
Off the record discussions or protected conversations have played a significant role in employer-employee exit negotiations since they became inadmissible in unfair dismissal proceedings on the 29th July 2013, but not every conversation is automatically protected. To what extent can employers genuinely have an off the record discussion?
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Uber tribunal: Lawyers argue taxi firm’s employees should be classed as workers
Lawyers will argue taxi firm’s drivers should be classed as workers as ONS figures show 15 per cent of UK workers are self-employed.
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