In Egon Zehnder Ltd v Mary Tillman, the High Court has ruled that although the reasonableness of restrictive covenants must be judged when they were entered into, the parties' expectations of future promotions...

It is unlawful to refuse to employ a person because they are a member (or not a member) of a trade union (Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, section 137).

In International Petroleum Ltd and others v Osipov and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an Employment Tribunal's finding that two non-executive directors...

A claim for victimisation can be brought where an employee has been subjected to a detriment as a result of bringing a discrimination complaint.

Under the Equality Act 2010, it is unlawful for an employer to dismiss an employee or subject him to a detriment because he has done or may do a ‘protected act’.

In Patsystems Holding Ltd v Neilly the High Court has reaffirmed the principle that the reasonableness of a restrictive covenant must be judged at the time it was entered into, rather than at the time an employer seeks to enforce it.

In Malekout v Ahmed and others the EAT upheld an Employment Tribunal’s decision that a redundancy situation existed even though a replacement had already been recruited for an under-performing employee who was then dismissed.

The dismissal of an employee for a reason connected with a TUPE transfer is automatically unfair unless the transferee establishes that the reason for the dismissal is an economic, technical or organisational reason entailing changes in the workforce (an 'ETO reason').

In Government Legal Service (GLS) v Brookes, the EAT has considered whether refusing to make adjustments to a multiple choice situational judgment test for a job applicant with Asperger's syndrome...

Following the abolition of the default retirement age in 2011, a dismissal based on an employee’s age amounts to age discrimination, unless it can be objectively justified.

Organisations are often put under pressure from clients and customers to remove particular employees from working on their projects, but what options are available to employers if there is no other work available?

Since October 1999, there has been no defined statutory territorial scope for the application of the right to claim unfair dismissal under the Employment Rights Act 1996 (section 94(1)).

Employers are required to make reasonable adjustments where a provision, criterion or practice ("PCP") places a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage.

Concern is growing in legal circles over proposed court closures, with criticisms that the government consultation has not been thought through. Richard Langley, below, makes the case for keeping the Mayor's and City of London Court open.

The blog will focus in particular on the Public Bodies Bill and will follow the Bill through to its enactment and implementation whilst commenting on related legal and policy developments over the coming months.

The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, has made no secret that the voluntary sector will be at the heart of the Government's plans to reform the NHS.

Today's entry sees the return of the long-awaited Christmas champagne competition.

Slightly overshadowed by the vote on tuition fees which also took place in the Lords yesterday (14 December), the fourth day's debate in committee on the Public Bodies Bill saw a defeat for the Government with Baroness Finlay of Llandaff succeeding in a division (277 votes to 165) with her amendment No.26 to take the Chief Coroner , the Deputy Chief Coroner and their Medical Advisers out of Schedule 1 (abolition) of the Bill.

Once again and despite still being in the programmed business yesterday, the Lords' committee proceedings which were due to continue today have been deferred. No future dates have yet been announced.

In a spirited 5 hour debate yesterday (here), the House of Lords left the Government in no doubt that, overall, it does not think that the safeguards proposed in amendments tabled by the Government go nearly far enough and that more needs to be done to circumscribe the powers of the Executive to make orders under the Bill