Liability for contractors’ wrongdoing

The CoA recently upheld a High Court decision that Barclays was vicariously liable for sexual assaults made by a doctor working as an independent contractor

Government U-turns on self-employed tax cut

Plans to cut tax for 2.7 million self-employed workers have been scrapped, the government has announced

Hot topic: Relationships at work, part two

Work is one of the most common places for people to find partners, with 16% thought to have met their spouse this way

Assessing employee misuse of confidential information

How an employer can respond to an employee’s removal of confidential information

Accusations, blame and getting past 'the lie'

In any conflict situation, there is always three sides to the story: the versions of the sides involved and, somewhere in the middle, the truth

Hot topic: Relationships at work

Work is one of the most common places for people to find partners, with 16% thought to have met their spouse this way

Childcare costs rise three times faster than wages

?Working parents with children under five have seen nursery fees rise three times faster than their wages over the past decade, according to the TUC

Preparing for employees' subject access requests

As much as HR should be hoping for genuine requests from concerned employees without a broader agenda, they should prepare for the worst

Hiring managers asking off-limit interview questions

?As many as 85% of interviewers have admitted to asking discriminatory questions during the recruitment process, including about age and plans to have children

Who monitors those doing the monitoring?

Artificial intelligence can take employee monitoring to new levels. But do the supposed productivity gains outweigh privacy concerns?

Legal lowdown: Tackling transphobia at work

Gender reassignment is a protected characteristic, but employers need to do more to stamp out discrimination

What to do when facing bullying claims

The question is not how to prevent claims by employees, but how to prevent bullying and harassment in the workplace in the first place