Employment law

A senior manager at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant accepted bribes including an £11,000 quad bike, a tribunal hearing has revealed.

Krishma Bathia, senior associate at Birketts law firm, highlights key factors that employers must consider when hiring international workers.

ECHR rejects legal challenge by Sir Philip Green to stop parliamentary privilege allowing the disclosure of names in privacy injunctions.

A fifth of employees have had a flexible working request denied, with almost a third of these down to employers' fears about productivity. 

Of all businesses surveyed about right to work checks, 80% answered at least one compliance question incorrectly, and are at risk of non-compliance.

Rising levels of sickness are taking a toll on many workplaces, research has suggested, with employers reporting increased absence affecting...

Employment tribunal finds part-time lecturer at London-based Capital City College (CCC) faced less favourable treatment.

External whistleblowing protections do not extend to external job applicants, after a ruling by the Court of Appeal.

Judge told NHS Trust facing claim over trans access to nurses changing rooms that it must now comply with proceedings.

The Metropolitan Police is to cut more than 1,700 officers and staff across serious organised crime, forensics, historic crime, mounted...

A woman who was asked why she wanted to work has partially won her employment tribunal case after a judge...

For the very first time, the Home Office stated, employment checks would be extended to cover businesses hiring gig economy and zero-hours workers.

More than one in seven UK employees have experienced some form of workplace abuse, according to a wide-ranging survey into...

Former cabinet minister Louise Haigh has called for an end to a ‘two-tier’ system in how businesses use non-disclosure agreements....

Employers are asking whether annual leave can be carried over into the next holiday year after the rules changed in 2024.