This month, trade union GMB has pledged to launch legal action against app-based taxi company Bolt regarding the status of its workers.
With temperatures expected to reach 34°C later today (17 June), HR practitioners have insisted it is not their job to police their organisations' dress codes.
The return to the office has brought attention back to love contracts as employers brace for the next wave of workplace love affairs.
Government is considering using agency workers to replace striking staff during one of the largest rail strikes in history, set to take place next week.
Adoption and surrogacy rates in the UK are on the rise – in the year ending March 2020, there were 3,440 adoptions and 413 parental orders following a surrogacy arrangement.
The UK government has made the Post Office and identity verification platform Yoti the first certified digital identity service providers (IDSP) to carry out right to work checks across the country.
Much of the media coverage of P&O Ferries’ redundancies focused on the outrage at the company’s apparently unusual breaches of employment law, and detail like the use of security guards with handcuffs...
A political scandal around porn-watching at work reopened the debate on whether employees need strict management of what they get up to while on-the-clock, says Dan Cave.
Proposed reforms to the UK's Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) system are planned to be introduced to parliament today.
The rights of workers are rarely far from the headlines. You only have to look at the backlash that came from P&O’s decision to make 800 people redundant without consultation to know the reaction when...
The long-awaited Employment Bill will not form part of the Queen's Speech, leaving working standards at a crossroads.
The Court of Appeal has ruled against HMRC in what could be a significant test case about whether freelancers are deemed to be inside or outside IR35.