Employment law

After Gordon Brown recently announced his work-life balance agenda, flexible working will soon be widely available to as many as...

HR may have escaped the swathe of redundancies in the City, but it still has to manage the fall-out. Here's how to turn bad news into an opportunity.

Flexible working arrangements are proving hard to secure despite new laws – with seven in 10 employers admitting they rarely...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled in favour of the City lawyer whose discrimination and bullying claim is worth...

A culture of desk dining and feeling guilty for taking a full lunch hour exists in offices across the UK...

Most companies will dispose of large quantities of waste paper and magnetic media that comprise of correspondence, plans, figures or...

Earlier this month, I used this column to accuse Gordon Brown of dithering over what to do about the rights...

Agency workers could gain equal rights to permanent staff at an even earlier stage than the 12-week watershed agreed last...

While the National Staff Dismissal Register (‘Database of dishonesty’, Personnel Today, 20 May) may sound like a fantastic idea for employers...

Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne and BF Components Ltd v GraceFacts Mr Payne worked for Enfield Technical Services as,...

Earlier this year the Office for National Statistics released figures that showed 95,000 more people over the age of 50...

The revised Acas code of practice on grievances and disciplinary procudures is shorter and less prescriptive, but employers should still be wary

Hopes of a landmark decision in the High Court case between British Airways (BA) and pilots union Balpa have been...

Sue Ashtiany, head of the Nabarro employment team, was announced as a winner of the ‘Professional of the Year’ category,...

Most employers know their key legal obligations – from duty of care to staff to dismissal procedures.But it’s easy to...