Employment law

Dishonest workers have increasingly fiddled expense claims to make themselves extra cash as rising prices in the shops and at...

Hartlepool Borough Council and others v Dolphin and others FACTS The claimants were employed by Hartlepool Borough Council in a...

Extraordinary events in the financial markets will lead to mass redundancies - a legal minefield.

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes the CIPD chief executive Jackie Orme talks exclusively to Personnel Today about her...

The government has rejected calls for an increase on the cap for tax-free redundancy payments.Employers can currently pay axed staff...

The former head of a special school has won £62,680 at tribunal for being sacked unfairly.Jim Hunter, 56, won the...

Requirements for "adequate" health and safety measures to be taken impose a form of strict liability on employers, the Court of Appeal has confirmed.

A raft of employment law changes will take effect in the UK tomorrow (1 October).The National Minimum Wage will be...

A dramatic rise in employment tribunal claims for unfair dismissal and discrimination will be another fall out of the credit...

Right Hand HR (RHHR) has been inundated with calls from hundreds of worried businesses looking for advice on cutting back...

Muslim fork truck driver Mohammed Ahmed is suing Tesco for religious discrimination because he had to handle alcoholic drinks as...

Religious groups in the UK could soon find their members subject to minimum wage and anti-discrimination laws, a union has...

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Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: A survey of 5,000 HR professional shows men earn 20% more than their...

The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 was amended earlier this year so that it makes no distinction between ordinary maternity leave...