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

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

Ditch the Retirement Age Personnel Today is supporting a campaign by the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) to force the government to commit to remove the default retirement age (DRA) in 2011. So now's the time for HR professiona  More...
03 October 2008 00:00

Religious groups in the UK could soon find their members subject to minimum wage and anti-discrimination laws, a union has claimed. Unite, the UK's largest trade union, said the Church of England has conceded that its ministers are employed by the Ch  More...
29 September 2008 11:13

A landmark deal on the rights of agency workers has been agreed between the government, employers and trade unions. Temporary and agency workers in the UK will receive equal treatment after 12 weeks employment. They will be entitled to the same pay   More...
20 May 2008 12:40

Lobbyists have hit back at a report by the TUC-backed Commission on Vulnerable Employment, saying employers shouldn't be punished by tougher laws just because of actions by "rogue organisations". The Hard Work, Hidden Lives report published last  More...
12 May 2008 07:26

Business leaders this morning called on the government and employers to rescue millions of mistreated UK workers from exploitation reminiscent of practices that were considered exploitative in the 19th century. A report by the TUC-backed Commission   More...
07 May 2008 08:10

The ministry of Defence (MoD) will appeal a ruling by the High Court that found sending British soldiers out on duty with defective equipment may breach their human rights. Justice Collins said it had to be recognised that the lives of members of th  More...
11 April 2008 16:47

After six months in the shadows, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is preparing a YouTube awareness campaign.  More...
28 March 2008 12:17

In Finnish Seamen's Union v Viking Line ABP the European Court of Justice held that, in principle, trade unions have the right to take collective action to prevent employers from hiring workers from EU countries that guarantee fewer employment rights. S  More...
15 February 2008 08:32

The UK cannot resist EU employment rights forever, so employers need to plan for the worst-case scenario. Another chapter in the saga of the Temporary Agency Workers Directive ended, yet again, without agreement between member states on this highly  More...
07 January 2008 08:00

The recent furore over the decision of the Oxford Union to invite the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, and holocaust denier, David Irvine, to address a debate has thrust freedom of speech to the forefront of the news. But does this concept exist i  More...
07 January 2008 08:00

Prison officers have started to pay a levy to fund a court battle aimed at restoring their right to strike. According to newspaper reports, the Prison Officers Association (POA) has been collecting a monthly levy of £1 from its 37,000 members to ra  More...
24 October 2007 09:49

Rumours that the first task of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will be to re-brand itself as the EHRC remain, like so many other questions regarding the new organisation, unconfirmed. Yet with less than a week to go before the sup  More...
24 September 2007 14:20

More high-level criticism has been heaped on the retrospective nature of the government's controversial changes to the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP). A Lords and Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights report  yesterday warned t  More...
10 August 2007 14:41

The government should resist trade union calls to extend the gangmaster licensing regulations to other sectors such as care homes, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has said. The current licensing scheme focuses on the food in  More...
31 July 2007 15:00

On 31 May 2007, the government announced a new legal power for teachers to search their pupils for  knives and other offensive weapons without consent. So do employers have a similar power to search their employees if they suspect one of their work  More...
03 July 2007 00:00

The government has published a consultation on the Discrimination Law Review , which aims to modernise discrimination legislation. It includes proposals for a Single Equality Bill that would will put the law on equality and discrimination   More...
12 June 2007 12:40

The government has pledged to investigate the illegal trafficking of migrant workers into the UK that was unveiled last night after a BBC investigation. Undercover Lithuanian journalist Audrius Lelkaitis posed as a migrant worker for the BBC and fo  More...
26 April 2007 11:03

Police officer recruits, community support officers and special constables should have DNA checks to ensure they have no criminal record, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has advised. Tony Lake, Acpo lead on forensic science and   More...
05 January 2007 08:42