We reported last month on the EAT decision in the Woolworths case which means that collective consultation is required whenever an employer proposes to make 20 or more employees redundant within a 90 day period, regardless of where those employees are located or how they are organised.

In Little v Richmond Pharmacology Ltd, the EAT held that an employee did not suffer indirect sex discrimination where her request to work part time, although initially refused, was accepted on appeal before she returned from maternity leave.

In Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, which was heard alongside Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes, the Supreme Court considered the scope of indirect age discrimination.

Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down its judgement in the case of Unison v The Lord Chancellor, in which Unison challenged the legality of the need for employee claimants to pay fees...

The EAT case of Nejjary v Aramark Ltd is a reminder that when assessing the reasonableness of a dismissal, tribunals must not take into account factors which did not feature in an employer's decision to dismiss.

In Mental Health Care Ltd v Biluan and another, the EAT considered whether it was fair to use a series of competency tests normally used for the purposes of recruitment for a redundancy selection procedure.

In Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd v Monte-D'Cruz, the EAT considered whether the interview criteria for potential alternative roles in a redundancy process need to be objective.

In X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau, the Supreme Court has confirmed that a volunteer without a contract was not protected by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 or the EU Equal Treatment Framework Directive.

The long wait is just about over and this blog will also now come back to life.

Recent heartbreaking stories in the media about the cruel and undignified treatment in hospital of some elderly patients, often near the end of their life and confused with dementia, have shone a spotlight on the position of the vulnerable in circumstances such as these.

A new report from NHS Digital, based on its analysis of 12 million fit notes in England over a 28 month period, states that 31% of all fit notes are issued to workers because of mental and behavioural disorders.

A further incentive for Tory revolt has arrived today in the form of the European Court of Justice's decision to take the UK to task over restrictions imposed on European nationals claiming benefits in the UK.

Today’s entry reports on the judicial review of the Nuclear Power National Policy Statement launched by Greenpeace.

Trying to secure the attention of government can be difficult - it is a crowded marketplace.

The Home Office has decided to consult the public on the fees it charges in the area of immigration.

As many of you will already know, the Home Office has brought in a new fee of £55 for applications for residence documents by European nationals and their family members living in the UK.

The Care Quality Commission was forced to disclose names of senior officials alleged to have been involved in the cover-up of failures over deaths of babies at a Cumbria Hospital.

We have news on the non dom changes at last. Where once there was speculation, since yesterday, we can now utter the word ‘certainty'.

Plans to co-opt landlords into the immigration enforcement system, by making them liable to a fine if they do not undertake sufficient immigration checks on their tenants have certainly grabbed the headlines in recent weeks.

A series of changes to the taxation of individuals who resident in the UK but domiciled outside the UK, so called resident non-doms (RNDs) which came into force from 6 April 2017...