Employment Law

New research by Macmillan Cancer Support and Yougov finds that one in five cancer patients face discrimination at work. That’s around 18%. The research was released earlier this month and…

  Following the recent EAT (Employment Appeals Tribunal) decision of AA Solicitors Ltd (t/a AA Solicitors) and another v Majid it was held that Tribunals are entitled to take into…

All employees with at least 26 weeks’ continuous service with their employer have the right to make a request to work flexibly, provided they have not already made a request…

Long-term sickness absence can be difficult for any employer to handle, even more so where the employee is also disabled. Disability is one of the nine ‘protected characteristics’ covered by…

Shared Parental Leave (SPL) was introduced in April 2015, as a more family friendly and flexible way in which working parents could manage time off work following the birth of…

Following the recent case of Brettle v Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council ET/1300537/15 an Employment Tribunal held that voluntary overtime and other associated payments, could be included in the calculation of…

Early conciliation through ACAS was introduced in April 2014 by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (“Act”) as a way for parties involved in a dispute potentially leading to…

There has been plenty of debate recently about how the UK’s vote to leave the EU will impact on legislation that the UK has derived from the EU, and chief…