More than one in three (37%) disabled jobseekers have been discriminated against during the recruitment process, according to research commissioned by the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative...
Since the introduction of employment tribunal fees, claims have dropped noticeably. Are they a barrier to employees getting real justice?
The average waiting time for decisions on benefits disputes has dropped from 33 weeks to under a fortnight on average, according to data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The whistleblowing legislation in the UK does not require employers to have a whistleblowing policy in place, but there are good reasons to have one.
The ever changing legal landscape in the field of employment and human resources has had another bumper year in 2014, with important legislative changes to existing legislation such as TUPE and also...
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has implemented the Deduction from Wages (Limitation) Regulations 2014 following assessment of the possible impact of the Employment Appeals...
The government's flagship Access to Work (AtW) programme is failing to help enough disabled people into employment because of failings at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), according to a...
It would be easy to think that an employer can discriminate on the grounds of obesity after reading some of the headlines around the Court of Justice of the European Union's latest ruling.
The High Court yesterday (Wednesday 17 December) rejected a judicial review brought by trade union Unison to have tribunal fees ruled unlawful.
The ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that obesity can constitute a disability could cause real problems for employers, according to Osborne Clarke employment partner Julian Hemming.
A bill to give the government powers to force big business to reveal their gender pay data was passed with an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons yesterday.
Controversial plans to raise firefighters' pension age have passed a vote in the House of Commons despite members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) holding protests outside Parliament during a 24-hour...
