Case law

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...

The UK High Court has refused transport business Uber’s application to declare its gig-economy business model lawful following the Supreme...

A union has lost its High Court challenge against Boris Johnson’s decision to back the home secretary after she was...

Employment tribunals have been deciding coronavirus-related cases throughout 2021. We set out 10 key first-instance rulings related to the pandemic from which employers can learn lessons.

It can be discriminatory to require an employee to retire when they reach a certain age, unless a retirement policy...

Last month, the Supreme Court delivered a ground-breaking ruling in the case of Kostal v Dunkley and others. Richard Arthur...

Jo Broadbent and Stefan Martin consider a recent case that involved a courier who could choose to release work to others.