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'Love is in the air, everywhere I look around'! As two employees' eyes meet across an open plan office, sparks fly, they swoon and the HR department waits with bated [...]

A report recently undertaken by three labour market economists has found that 44% of workers on zero-hours contracts would like more working hours. In addition, and in contrast to the [...]

A female council worker has settled her sex discrimination claim for £25,000. Sharon Douglas was the only female employee at Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council. She worked in the [...]

The pay gap between the under-30s and over-30s has risen by more than half in the last 20 years, as younger workers are still enduring the residual effects of the [...]

Recently released statistics indicate that the apprenticeship levy introduced by the government in April 2017 needs a radical rethink. Set up with an aim of transforming training and creating 3 [...]

In the recent case of Benkharbouche v. Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs & Anor the Supreme Court agreed with the EAT and the Court of Appeal and [...]

On 13 October 2017, the government published the Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill. This will offer two weeks' paid leave to any employed parent who loses a child under [...]

In the recent case of HMCI v. The Interim Executive Board of Al-Hijrah School, the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court's finding that a school's complete gender segregation of [...]

The EAT has dismissed an appeal by Asda in its on-going equal pay case involving a claim brought by over 7,000 current and former employees (the majority of which are [...]

The EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will apply in the UK from 25 May next year. The headline changes include: Direct compliance liability for processors Increased transparency through more [...]

Mr Gnahoua was a bus driver at Abellio London Ltd (Abellio). He was dismissed for gross misconduct at a disciplinary hearing. On appeal, Mr Gnahoua told Abellio that he wished [...]

In the recent decision of Farmah & ors v. Birmingham City Council & ors, the EAT held that claimants could not bring equal pay claims on the same ET1 form [...]

As reported in our article ' It's all change in employment law in April...', private employers with 250 employees or more should have collated their relevant data on the first [...]

Deliveroo has set out words and phrases that managers should use to describe its riders and their working practices in an attempt to fortify the company's stance that its riders [...]

Employers have a general duty to ensure the safety of their employees under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. On 1 February 2016, the new [...]

Following our post on 22 December 2016, '2016: A year of discontent?' the Trade Union Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional) Regulations 2017 SI 2017/139 have been confirmed and [...]

Following our post on 1 December 2016, ' National Living Wage to increase by 4 per cent in April', the draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2017 have now been [...]

In our article published this week on HRZone, we consider whether or not the UK should ban unpaid internships. This article looks at the applicability of minimum wage rates to [...]

In another case focusing on the gig economy, the London Central Employment Tribunal has ruled that a CitySprint bike courier was a worker under the Employment Rights Act 1996. In [...]

The Immigration Act 2016 is now in force and its substantive provisions seek to reflect the Home Office's aim of making the immigration system more robust in the face of [...]

The recent legal case of Jeffery v The British Council shows employers how to decide whether expatriate employees' legal rights fall under British or overseas employment law. Helena Rozman of [...]

Employers may start taking more of an interest in its employees' bedtime routines based on the latest research from Rand Europe. Using data from 62,000 people, they discovered that sleep-deprived [...]

From 21 November 2016, public bodies are under a duty to ensure that staff in customer-facing roles can speak fluent English (or Welsh, in Wales). The government intends to use [...]

The government has published the proposed benefit and pension rates for 2017 to 2018. It reviews the rates every year to reflect the changes to the consumer price index (CPI). [...]

Is a change in maternity law also needed, as campaigners maintain? Women are campaigning to have statutory maternity leave extended for mothers of babies born prematurely. They are arguing that [...]

Bramble Foods Ltd (the Company) generates a third of its total annual turnover in the eight weeks from mid-September onwards, in the lead-up to Christmas. As this is its busiest [...]

Gender inequality has been at the heart of the government's agenda for 2016. However, despite the excitement of Christmas beginning to build, the stark reality of the ever-present gender pay [...]

The President of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) has issued Presidential Guidance on the protocol for 'judicial assessment' in the Employment Tribunal. The guidance came into force on 3 [...]