The Supreme Court yesterday ruled in a landmark case that volunteers do not qualify under the Equality Act and have no legal challenge to acts of discrimination in age, race or sex.
An investment manager who earned nearly £2.5 million a year lost a High Court fight yesterday for a bonus worth £1.7 million.
This week the Court of Appeal will hear the case of Warby v Wunda Group, in a case UK law firm Eversheds has said could prove significant for employers and mean that they could soon be held...
I doubt whether any HR professional would disagree that any kind of bullying and harassment in the workplace is harmful to the victim’s health and wellbeing, odious in the extreme and not to be...
Following plans to close 15 factories at disabled employer Remploy, with potential redundancies of 900, the Government announced yesterday it proposes to accelerate the process.
The Government has scrapped plans to tax interim managers as if they were on payroll, even though they work as a limited company.
The GMB union staged a protest yesterday outside the head office of US coffee chain Starbucks, because it claims Starbucks is paying staff little more than the minimum wage of £6.19.
The Court of Appeal yesterday reached a decision that limits the potential risks for employers who use agency staff being sued for discrimination. It set a three-month time limit for claims by agency...
As part of the review of employment law aimed at creating more flexibility for employers and employees – as well as an environment where enterprise can thrive – the Government has set out proposals,...
Employee share ownership body ifs ProShare – which held its annual awards ceremony this month – and the Employee Ownership Association (EOA) have written to all 21 MPs sitting on the Growth and...
September saw the release of the annual Employment and Employment Appeal Tribunal statistics from the Ministry of Justice. And as might be expected, the statistics, which cover the period April 2011...
Organisations based in the UK who currently employ workers from outside the European Union, or may employ migrant worker in the future, need to be aware of important changes to the UK's Immigration...
