Common law states that employees have a right to work so failure to provide it could, in the absence of a carefully drafted garden leave clause, be treated as a breach of contract. An employee may resign or tear up their contract - which may contai  More...
01 December 2008 00:02

Without a doubt the worldwide web has brought many benefits since its inception in the early 1990s - apart from information that is often unreliable. As every parent struggling with a child's homework assignment knows, finding accurate information on th  More...
01 December 2008 00:01

In Noah v Sarah Desrosiers t/a Wedge, Bushra Noah, a Muslim hairdresser, succeeded in her claim that she had been indirectly discriminated against on grounds of religion as a result of her employer's requirement that she remove her headscarf while at wo  More...
01 December 2008 00:01

Recruitment advertising has been in the spotlight recently after a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that job adverts could amount to direct discrimination . In the case of Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en voor rac  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Employment lawyers would probably not know what to do with themselves if they had no new maternity legislation to discuss, so it is just as well the Maternity and Parental Leave etc and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2008   More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Many observers believe the British economy is in the midst of the most severe downturn since the recession of the early 1990s. However, the old saying "make the best of a bad situation" still rings true. Consequently, now is a good time for HR p  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Q Does the Ladele case - where registrar Lillian Ladele won religious discrimination case after refusing to officiate at civic partnerships - prove that religion is more influential in the workplace than ever? Mike Judge Head of communications, Chr  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

In 1998 David Beckham sported a sarong, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton were outed for their antics with a cigar, and TV hard man Bear Grylls became the youngest British mountaineer to climb Mount Everest. Less memorably, it was the year the Data Pr  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Accountancy firm Grant Thornton's recent International Business report revealed that only 40% of UK businesses have measures in place to accommodate employees that want to expose inappropriate or illegal activity at work. It is a good time, the  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

A campaign to help organisations save time and money on employment costs has been well received by industry groups. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Berr) has launched the Employing People campaign, which aims to  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Controversial plans to allow employers to discriminate in favour of hiring ethnic minority job candidates have been branded unrealistic by senior employment figures. The long-awaited Equality Bill, expected to come into force in 2010, will allo  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm House of Lords In a recent case on housing provision discrimination, the House of Lords stated that the long standing authority of Clark v Novacold was "wrongly decided". This will lead to an uncertain future   More...
01 December 2008 00:00

The claimant, a Christian registrar, was directly and indirectly discriminated against on the grounds of her religion because she was subjected to disciplinary proceedings for refusing to conduct same-sex civil partnerships. Religious conviction   More...
01 December 2008 00:00

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that discriminatory pay protection schemes are capable of justification under the Equal Pay Act as they (in principle) constitute a legitimate objective, but the means used to achieve that objective must be proportionat  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that the European Equal Treatment Directive (EET Directive) does cover direct discrimination and harassment against an employee on the grounds of their association with a disabled person. Associative dis  More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Employers need to make sure they know their rights as more people request sick pay while they take time off for cosmetic surgery, warns Malcolm Gregory, partner at Withy King Solicitors. He says the issue of cosmetic and elective surgery and sick leave   More...
01 December 2008 00:00

Length of service has long been a central feature of any redundancy selection exercise. However, following the introduction of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations in October 2006 , use of last in, first out, which clearly relates to length of  More...
28 November 2008 18:19

HR news and analysis, including: Find out who was the overall winner at Personnel Today’s glittering awards ceremony  on 27 November – and listen to why they thought they won the coveted trophy We discuss how recent developments in the Sh  More...
28 November 2008 17:52

A 'bullied' former hotel inspector has won her case for unfair dismissal against the Automobile Association (AA) and plans further action in the courts. Jane Wyatt, a senior hotel inspector in the Hotels Services Division, was sacked by the A  More...
27 November 2008 13:02

One in two recruitment agencies believes the Agency Workers Directive will add 10% to the cost of filling a temporary vacancy. The Agency Workers Directive was passed by the European Parliament last month - giving temporary workers in the UK equal   More...
27 November 2008 10:13