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In the case of X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau, X volunteered under a written agreement expressed as ‘binding in honour only'.

New regulations confirm the scope of sweeping changes to unfair dismissal law taking effect 1 January 2027, reducing the qualifying period from two years to six months and removing all compensation caps.

The draft regulations on the abolition of the default retirement age were published on Thursday 18th February.

Employers are not liable to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees unless they know, or ought to know, that the employee is both disabled and likely to be at a substantial disadvantage.

The recent unseasonal weather conditions have had a chaotic effect, with thousands of people being affected by organisations’ inability to predict and react in a timely and effective fashion to the consequences of unexpected events.

The Government published its Equality Bill on 27th April, confirming many of the announcements it had made previously.

Employers have a general duty to protect the health and safety of their workers. They have specific duties where there are women of childbearing age at work.

On 24 June 2025 the Equality and Human Rights Commission ('EHRC') published an update to its interim guidance on the practical implications of the Supreme Court judgment...

The Equality Bill could be on the statute books by October 2010 (subject to the usual hurdles of approval by both the Houses, Royal Assent and the slightly unknown quantity of a General Election).

In unfair dismissal cases, the following figures will apply where the effective date of termination of the employee...

Azeem Rafiq's employment tribunal claim against Yorkshire County Cricket was settled within 72 hours of new chair, Lord Patel being appointed.

The Government has accepted the Low Pay Commission's recommendations for the rates of the National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage that will apply from April 2024...

New rates and limits for employment claims come into effect on 6 April 2024. The limit on a week's pay (applicable, for example, when statutory redundancy pay is being calculated) increases from £643 to £700.

On 18 September 2023, the Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill received Royal Assent, becoming the Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023 (the 'Act') (see the government's Press Release).

In the recent case of Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie, the EAT held that a redundancy payment scheme, which provided that employees should not receive more than the total salary they would have earned had they worked until retirement, was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim and therefore did not amount to unlawful age discrimination.

The Sentencing Council (‘SC’) is consulting until 18 February 2015 on a new draft guideline for sentencing health & safety, corporate manslaughter, food safety and hygiene offences.

The Supreme Court's ruling on Tesco's "fire and rehire" practice highlights that employers cannot dismiss and rehire to bypass permanent contractual promises. Employers must carefully word employment contracts, ensuring clear terms for incentives and benefits, especially under the new Code of Practice.