Case law

An employment tribunal ruling confirms that, in the case of one worker, long Covid amounted to a disability.

Caroline Philipps and Mike Tremeer examine a recent appeal where redactions of client identities were refused.

An employment tribunal has ruled that a Cambridgeshire school indirectly discriminated against a teacher when it gave him a final written warning.

An employment tribunal case involving a barrister who is alleging her chambers and LGBT campaign group Stonewall tried to silence her views on gender has begun.

Christian doctor dismissed for refusing to refer to transgender people by their preferred pronouns is appealing a 2019 judgment at the employment tribunal.

Employers are able to sanction employees that take part in industrial action without breaching their human rights, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

A Network Rail worker with 'shy bladder syndrome' who could not provide urine sample for drug testing has won £90,000 for unfair dismissal.

The Court of Appeal judgment in Pimlico Plumbers v Smith ruled that holiday pay can carry over and accumulate until a contract ends. Holly Milne examines the detail

Kristie Higgs, the Christian school worker sacked for Facebook posts raising her concerns about transgenderism and sex education, has her...

Agency workers do not automatically have the right to be invited to apply for a directly employed vacancy.

A heating engineer who claimed he was owed holiday pay by Pimlico Plumbers after the Supreme Court ruled that he...

A woman who won a sex discrimination and equal pay case against BNP Paribas has been awarded more than £2...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Tarmac Cement and Lime cannot be held vicariously liable for a practical joke one of its employees played on a contractor.

More cases will start to work their way through the overburdened tribunal system which directly relate to the pandemic – around furlough, redundancy, vaccinations and workplace returns.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in...