The figures don’t lie. Last year there were a staggering 218,000 employment tribunal claims.

The Supreme Court has issued its long awaited judgment in the case of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Edwards.

Abolishing legal aid for employment advice will have the “perverse effect” of increasing the number of cases that end up at an employment tribunal, national charity Citizens Advice warned today.

Following the Chancellor’s announcement last week on sweeping changes to the UK’s employment tribunal system, employers should be warned the proposals carry ‘concealed and complex risks’.

While previously the law did not hold employers liable for third-party harassment, G Norouzi successfully argued that as a public sector employer the council was bound by the EU Race Directive, which...

The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) has expressed concern over a sharp rise in the number of age discrimination claims and warns the figure is likely to continue rising.

Nearly three-quarters of employers want employment tribunals to have greater powers in removing weak or vexatious employment claims from the system, a recent survey finds.

Employers, particularly in the public sector, are braced for a surge of industrial action, with a third preparing to deal with their own staff downing tools on strike, CIPD research shows.

Acas has responded to a Government proposal that all potential employment tribunal claims are to be offered early conciliation with Acas first.

Employment tribunal reform, which the Government claims will boost economic growth, will not create new jobs, say employers.

Employers are seeing their legal bills soar as laid-off workers take them to court to dispute the size of redundancy settlements according to research from commercial law firm EMW.

The conviction of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings for corporate manslaughter will herald an avalanche of similar cases, lawyers today warned.