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Single ET claims increase by 4% in Jan to Mar 2017

20 June 2017

19 June 2017

An ET decides that paying a father statutory pay for 12 weeks parental leave to look after his new born child, compared to paying a...

15 June 2017

Aviva, Barclays and six other firms have agreed to promote over-50s employment by publishing data about the age of their workforce in response to a...

14 June 2017

The ICO has warned businesses there’s no time to delay in preparing for the GDPR, “the biggest change to data protection law for a generation”...

13 June 2017

The EAT holds that the ‘mere’ influence of something related to an employee’s disability is not sufficient to satisfy a discrimination arising from disability claim;...

12 June 2017

An ET decides that the dismissal of an employee with a 20-year exemplary record was fair after he breached the employer’s zero tolerance policy by...

8 June 2017

The ONS Labour disputes in the UK: 2016 analysis shows that 322,000 working days were lost due to labour disputes in 2016, up from 170,00...

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Call for zero-hours contract workers to get right to request fixed hours

7 June 2017

6 June 2017

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an argument that an employer can ‘escape’ a finding of automatically unfair dismissal if it genuinely, but mistakenly, believed...

5 June 2017

An ET finds that the removal of a school business manager’s financial duties and line management responsibilities breached the implied term of trust and confidence,...

2 June 2017

Citizens Advice have revealed that half of people on zero hours contracts, and two in five people on temporary contracts, wrongly believe they are not...

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Only 1 in 4 people with a long-term mental illness are in work, says TUC

1 June 2017

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