In order to comply with EU law and avoid a finding of direct sex discrimination, employers should conduct individual risk assessments with breastfeeding workers in order to identify the risks ...

Around 40% of firms that have published their gender pay gap for the 2019 reporting round so far have reported a widening of the gap compared to 2018

The Supreme Court has added to the raft of cases concerning whether staff in the gig economy are workers, and so entitled to paid holiday and limited other rights, or genuinely self-employed and out of employment...

The ECJ has once again shaken up rules on working time in a recent employment case on stand by shifts. Previously, on call or stand by shifts would count as working time ...

A final draft of the new gender pay gap regulations has been published. Subject to receiving parliamentary approval, the regulations will come into force on 6 April 2017, with the first publications due in April 2018.

An employer must only conduct a proportionate search, and give a proportionate response, to data subject access requests it receives.

The Government has announced that it intends to introduce legislation to make it easier for fathers to take paternity leave. It is not yet known when these changes will come into force.

It's not just the characters in Downton Abbey that have servants at their beck and call. We all know in a few clicks or swipes you can have a cleaner (Handy), a driver (Uber) or a meal (Deliveroo) at your door.

Southern Rail's parent company has failed in an attempt to obtain an injunction preventing strikes led by ASLEF by relying on breaches of freedom of movement principles under the Treaty for the Functioning of the EU.

In some cases, an employer can take into account an employee's history of expired written warnings in deciding to dismiss them following a further instance of misconduct.

An employer was found to have directly discriminated against an employee on the basis of a hearing disability it perceived that employee to have.

The Government has responded to the Women and Equalities Committee's report on pregnancy and maternity discrimination in the workplace.

The High Court has clarified the scope of an employer's duty when giving a reference in respect of a former employee.

In order to successfully establish indirect discrimination, claimants do not have to prove the reason why a practice puts their affected ethnicity, gender, etc. at a particular disadvantage.

The refusal of a Catholic employee's 5-week holiday to attend religious festivals was not indirect religious discrimination.

Dr Gunny submitted two grievances alleging that she had been discriminated against on the basis of her sex and detailing the adverse impact on her.

The Claimant, Ms Agoreyo, an experienced teacher, commenced work as a primary school teacher for the London Borough of Lambeth in order to teach a class of up to 29 five and six-year-old children...

On 8 April 2020 HMRC officials appeared before the Parliamentary Treasury Committee to answer questions about how the COVID-19 Job Retention Scheme (Scheme) will operate.

As an employment lawyer acting for individuals in the City, initial calls with my female clients usually start with "I came back from maternity leave and…"

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee who was dismissed for failing to provide evidence of his right to work in the UK after his original right to work came to an end should have been given the right to appeal against his dismissal.