Employment law

The Army could be facing a payout of almost £400,000 after a lesbian soldier’s claim for sex discrimination and discrimination...

A children’s television actor who played a character in the CBeebies show In the Night Garden is claiming unfair dismissal...

Music label EMI is widely expected to axe more than a third of its 5,500 workers tomorrow as its new...

Two members of a relatively small sales team got married last year, and the woman is now five months pregnant....

Q What are the main changes proposed?A The Employment Bill received its first reading in the House of Lords on...

North Wales Probation Area v EdwardsFACTS Mrs Edwards was registered as a temporary (‘relief’) hostel worker, and worked most shifts...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, as the old saying goes. Yet, according to TUC research...

The government’s Employment Bill proposal to completely scrap the statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures was hailed as great news for...

For procedures that are supposed to be concerned with confidentiality and privacy, how organisations manage the security of their large...

Surrey County Council has launched a hotline telephone service for staff to vent any workplace grievances, as part of its...

The NHS must act “in the spirit” of the Working Time Directive (WTD) when deciding how to solve the problem...

A crucial European legal opinion that could dramatically increase the workplace rights of carers has been delayed.The Advocate General, one...

A group of workers sacked by telephone have won an Employment Tribunal ruling that they were unfairly dismissed.Up to 79...

The equalities commission said it was “disappointed but not surprised” by a lack of female promotions at Barclays Capital (BarCap),...

A senior police officer who had sex with a woman at an airport while on duty has been sacked after...