Employment law

Civil Service recommits to three-day office attendance following reports that ministers were doing little to enforce hybrid working rules.

Most of the UK’s financial sector bosses say they would like workers to spend more time in the office over the next year.

A father has won more than £20,000 in a claim for sex-based harassment after his colleagues ‘gossiped’ about him working flexible hours.

The new industrial relations framework is based on four principles: collaboration, proportionality, accountability and balancing the interests of workers, employers and the public.

Government launches consultation on reforms to strengthen remedies at employment tribunal on collective redundancy, and fire and rehire

Businesses may face extra costs with the changes to SSP mooted by the government but these will be neutered by productivity increases and health and morale improvements, say campaigners.

Government launches consultation on how reforms around zero-hours contracts should apply to agency workers.

Emma O’Connor reports on proactive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and how employers can prepare.

Employment Rights Bill could cost business £7.4bn over 10 years as government publishes impact assessment and four consultations.

More than three-quarters of employers are worried about the introduction of day-one rights for unfair dismissal.

According to Adzuna, the number of advertised internships has fallen by 30% compared with 2022, with only 3,817 opportunities available this October.

The number of workers covered by whistleblowing law could be about to expand as Protect's campaign to reform the Public Interest Disclosure Act gains parliamentary support.

A bailiff who brought a miniature Yorkshire terrier with her to work as an ‘emotional support dog’ has lost a claim for disability discrimination.

The firm, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, dismissed the employees, some of whom were on six-figure salaries, from its Los Angeles offices.

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips announces plans to tackle Home Office backlog, ending uncertainty for modern slavery claimants.