The Employment Tribunal yesterday rejected an age discrimination claim made by lawyer Leslie Seldon against his former firm Clarkson Wright and Jakes, bringing an end to the six-year legal battle that...
The CBI has called on the Government to embark on a programme of wholesale culture-change of the employment tribunals system.
The recent publicity surrounding Kate Torpey’s claims of unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and discrimination on the grounds of maternity against her former employer, Robinson Webster (Holdings),...
Lord Sugar has told an employment tribunal that Apprentice winner Stella English is a “headline grabber” and is effectively trying to blackmail him.
Unfair dismissal. Discrimination. Breach of contract. None of these spell good news for HR professionals and more often than not, they hint at long disputes and big financial losses. The outcome of an...
The Metropolitan Police has opened a formal investigation into allegations of collusion in the blacklisting of construction workers.
The British Airways (BA) employee, who lost her job because of her Christian faith, yesterday won her case for discrimination at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
An employee who became depressed when her husband told her he was gay has successfully sued her employers, Holland & Barrett.
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...
A major construction company and a concrete structures firm have been found guilty and fined £130,000 after a worker died following a 19 metre fall at a Swansea building site.
A women has been awarded £27,000 at an employment tribunal after suffering sexual harassment from her bosses.