There are few matters that are more likely to make your Managing Partner wake up in a cold sweat than their key fee earners being poached (or, to use the less emotive term, being "laterally hired").

The COVID-19 Job Retention Scheme has been introduced to encourage employers to retain staff during the coronavirus crisis and avoid having to make redundancies.

As we approach what we hope is the final Christmas cursed by COVID-chaos and enforced homeworking, Associate, James Hockley takes a light-hearted look back over the last two years...

In recent years the power of regulators has increased dramatically. All regulators are more proactive in taking enforcement action against individuals in breach of rules in previously uncharted areas, for example the personal use of Twitter.

Workers' entitlements to paid annual leave will carry over indefinitely in circumstances where the employer has refused to offer holiday pay.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that compensation for injury to feelings can in principle be awarded in respect of working time detriment claims.

Nipping to the pub for a quick pint is not unusual in the Square Mile, especially for those in the insurance sector.

An employer's decision to dismiss a disabled employee for gross misconduct which was seemingly unrelated to the disability amounted to discrimination arising from disability.

There has been much talk recently about the precarious situation of many delivery drivers working in companies forming part of the 'gig' economy. Drivers for companies such as Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon...

The Commercial Court held that a settlement agreement between an employer and employee had not discharged the employee from a non-compete clause in a shareholders' agreement to which he was a party.

When conducting a disciplinary investigation into an employee's suspected misconduct, it may be open to an employer to take into account past conduct which had not attracted disciplinary sanctions at the time.

The Court of Appeal has decided that the test was not whether the employer did all it could to determine whether an employee was disabled and exhaust every option open to them ...

The EAT overturned an employment tribunal's decision that a school had no knowledge of an employee's disability ...

Ms Pillar was a Nurse Practitioner for NHS 24. Her role involved the telephone triage of patients to ensure that they were directed towards care appropriate to their medical priority.

The 2021 Queen's Speech was delivered on 11 May 2021. In this briefing, we take stock of what it had to say about employment law reform.

An employer was found not to be liable for an employee's serious injury caused by an assault during drinks held after the office Christmas party.

Morrisons, the supermarket chain, has been held liable for a disgruntled employee's willful breach of data protection legislation.

The Court considered that there was a legal basis for the Police Service in Scotland to bring misconduct proceedings against individual police officers based on messages they had sent to each other on a WhatsApp group.

Friday, 8 March 2024, will mark International Women's Day. First celebrated in 1911, it is a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements...

So whilst workers' current holiday entitlement may not be perfect, it is significantly better than it was 19 years ago.