Employment Law

Overview Over the years, case law has helped Tribunals and Employers understand the implications of their processes and procedures and how they correlate with the statute in force. A twofold…

At this time of year work experience requests from young people tend to increase, either from those who are looking to gain some experience over the summer, or from Secondary…

Earlier this year, HMRC in conjunction with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, released a long list of employers who had been named and shamed for failing to…

Shared Parental Leave (“SPL”) has been around since 2015 but uptake on it has been minimal. As a result, when employers are required to deal with an application for SPL…

There are around 4.5 million people living with diabetes in the UK and approximately 700 diagnoses per day, the equivalent of one person every two minutes. In the last 20…

Overview Following the conjoined cases of Focus Care Industry v Roberts; Frudd v The Partington Group; Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake, the EAT was required to determine whether or not…

In the recent case of The Government Legal Service v Brookes UKEAT/0302/16/RN, a question arose as to whether an employer would have to amend its process of subjecting candidates to…

The UK heads to the polls on 8th June 2017. In anticipation, we will have a look at some of the key employment issues being discussed at the moment for…