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Employers who offer settlement agreements to employees typically want to compromise as many claims as possible. This often includes future employment claims.

Rebecca Pallot walks through the key points from NHS England and NHS Improvement's recently published guidance document on supporting the NHS workforce throughout the development...

The summer sun has not slowed the pace of important decisions and legislative updates for employers to be aware of. Summarised below are three of the most notable.

The claimants were immigration officers based at the Waterloo International Terminal ("WIT"). They were "mobile-grade" employees, subject to a mobility provision in the staff handbook which stated that they could be transferred to any civil service post in the UK or abroad.

In a tax case just published, the Tax Chamber of the First Tier Tribunal has made an important decision which will have impact for employees and for employers in the tax treatment...

Settlement agreements, when used appropriately, are an essential part of most organisations HR strategy. They offer a way for an employer and the employee to agree terms for the employee's exit.

Measures will be brought forward to encourage flexible working, to introduce the entitlement to leave for unpaid carers…"

Updates recently added to our Employment Notes blog include updates on important rulings on unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, legal advice privilege and publicity for tribunal claims, as well as...

Settlement agreements, a legally binding agreement between an employer and an employee ending the employment relationship are generally invoked when a dispute arises and it has been decided...

The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 were published by Trade and Industry Secretary Alan Johnson today. Alan Johnson said: "Ageism will affect more people, at some stage in their lives, than any other form of discrimination. But until now the law of the land has allowed it to continue.

With better days hoped for ahead, we ask what the Law Commission's recommendations on extending time limits and enlarging Employment Tribunal jurisdiction may mean for employers.

Persuaded by the words used in the legislation, UK Supreme Court holds that a company administrator appointed under the Insolvency Act is not an officer of a company under TULCRA.

The recent case of Colquhoun v HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") suggests a payment to reduce an employee's future contractual redundancy rights can potentially be entirely tax-free and does not count towards the £30,000 exemption available on any future termination of employment.

It is clear the Government wishes to draw important distinctions between the CJRS and the New Scheme.

Statistics for April 2010 to March 2011 released by HM Courts and Tribunals Service yesterday reveal that the number of claims has fallen since the same period in 2009-10.

On 23 September 2019, Thomas Cook announced it was entering Compulsory Liquidation. The circumstances of the liquidation sparked controversy and left thousands of passengers stranded abroad and...

Undoubtedly driven by an interest in drawing UK-based banks to Frankfurt and becoming an EU hub for US banks post-Brexit ...