Employment law

Human resources professionals could be stuck with the statutory dismissal procedures for another two years, a leading employment lawyer has...

Increasing numbers of HR professionals are working more than 40-hours a week, research has revealed.A survey of more than 6,000...

Human resources professionals should be more “brisk” when it comes to making redundancies, according to a leading management guru.Speaking at...

Plans to increase the cost of work permits needed by businesses to employ migrant workers were passed at the Liberal Democrat party...

Peter Lewis, a former senior banker at HSBC, has lost his long-running claim that the banking giant discriminated against him...

British Airways (BA) is embroiled in another row about uniform and religion after an airport worker was sacked for wearing...

Manufacturing employer ALA Rail is refusing to pay compensation to a widow whose husband and son were killed in a...

Walsall Council has been heavily criticised for a “range of failings” that led to a £650,000 payout to a former...

Working mothers taking advantage of their full 12-months’ maternity leave could be about to become more expensive for employers. The...

Controversial regulations meaning dismissals are automatically rendered unlawful by a failure to follow set procedures – the Polkey principle –...

Basic HR failings cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds last year as one in four civil servant sackings...

The controversial Agency Workers Directive (AWD) has been hanging over the British workplace for almost all of the new millennium...

A ‘protected period’ is needed to encourage employers to seriously consider equal pay.The debate surrounding the government’s Discrimination Law Review...

Regular rail commuters will not be surprised to learn that the rail regulator’s report reveals that almost 400,000 passengers face...

Tarbuck v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) confirmed that a failure to consult a disabled employee about reasonable...