It is now well known that advertising a vacancy for a "barmaid" or a "handyman" would discriminate against applicants of the opposite sex

The Claimant worked for a company that was acquired by way of a sale of shares

Barclays CEO Jes Staley has been fined £642,430 by City regulators and had £500,000 of bonus clawed back by the bank after he attempted to identify an anonymous whistleblower.

The Claimant, Mr Awan, was employed as a security agent for American Airlines.

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

Over recent years there has been growing discussion of mental health issues.

The Inclusion at Work Panel (the Panel) was appointed in June 2023 to identify the interventions that increase fairness, inclusion and diversity, make the most compelling arguments...

An employer's refusal to allow an employee to make modest adjustments to her working hours following her return from maternity leave has been held to be indirect sex discrimination.

In the recent case of Fentem v Outform EMEA Ltd it was decided that the employer's use of a PILON clause to bring forward an employee's termination date after he had resigned did not amount to a dismissal.

In the recent case of Stott v Ralli Ltd the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that the dismissal of an employee was not an act of discrimination arising from disability.

Emma Sell, Practice Manager of BDBF explores how mental health first aid training works and what to expect from it.

The concept of "quiet quitting", where an employee does the minimum amount of work possible to retain their job, became prominent on social media during the Covid lockdowns.

A long-term sick employee transferred under TUPE but was denied long-term sickness benefits by both the old and new employers' PHI insurers. After he was dismissed...

Whistleblowers are protected under English law regardless of the sector in which they work. However, there are special considerations and enhanced protections which apply to whistleblowers...

Our detailed employment law tracker highlights new domestic legislation and other key proposals for legislative reform.

On 11 May 2020 the Government published "Our Plan to Rebuild: the UK Government's COVID-19 Recovery Strategy" (the Recovery Strategy).

I write this column in the aftermath of the political conference season.

With the economy entering what we hope is a recovery phase we are seeing an increase in senior employees looking to start new jobs running up against restrictive covenants...

The much-anticipated online database of Employment Tribunal judgments is now live, meaning that employees suing their former employer and employers being sued can now be identified by journalists...

If you work in a senior role in banking or insurance the chances are that you will be familiar by now with at least some of the principles of the senior managers' regulatory regimes, introduced earlier this year.