At present, any employee or worker working anywhere in the European Union is entitled to work without being discriminated against in relation to certain ‘protected characteristics’. Those protected...
Supermarket giant Tesco has recently been fined £115,000 for employing foreign students who were breaking the conditions of their visas. This follows shortly after the decision by the UK Border Agency...
The deputy prime minister will announce today that from 2015 a flexible system of parental leave will be introduced. It's aimed at driving more women back into the workforce and giving men the option...
The fight to secure compensation for former Ethel Austin and Woolworths staff stalled when the companies went into administration in 2008, but has now taken a step forward.
The retention of employment model (RoE) was developed by the Department of Health to limit the number of non-clinical staff forced to transfer to the private sector from the NHS under private finance...
The retention of employment model (RoE) was developed by the Department of Health to limit the number of non-clinical staff forced to transfer to the private sector from the NHS under private finance...
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that 170 women and four men who worked for Britain’s largest local authority will be able to bring an equal pay case through the civil courts rather than an employment...
In theory, since 1 October last year, no one should now be subject to a default retirement age (DRA). But in practice, things seems to be working out rather differently – and not just as a result of...
National Union of Journalists (NUJ) general secretary Michelle Stainstreet condemned sexism and harassment at work and urged the Government and media employers to acknowledge and address the problems...
The Government announced yesterday that it would remove the third-party harassment provisions from the Equality Act 2010.
The independent regulator for corporate governance, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has announced amendments to the UK Corporate Governance Code, which came into effect yesterday. The changes...
Major changes in legislation take effect today and one marks its first anniversary.
