Employment law

Police widen investigation into neonatal deaths at Countess of Chester Hospital to include gross negligence manslaughter by individuals.

The Employment Lawyers’ Association wants the government to stop treating employment tribunals as a ‘poor relation’ to other court cases.

Eligible professions for Skilled Worker visas include ‘canine beautician’. If that isn't eyebrow-raising enough, it also includes ‘immigration officer’.

Engineer wins unfair dismissal and age discrimination claim in a case where employment tribunal found colleagues had trespassed his home.

Employers in the care sector must now prioritise recruiting workers from England, according to new rules laid before parliament this week.

US judges have ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse last month.

The Home Office wants to ensure employers use the existing pool of workers resident in UK before issuing new sponsor licences.

Wes Streeting told MPs there were currently 15,300 staff at NHS England, and 3,300 in the Department of Health and Social Care. About half of the posts would go, he added.

Return-to-office mandates could disadvantage more than a million disabled workers, according to new research.

More than 200 employees who were contracted to work on the separation of the supermarket’s IT system from former owner Walmart were dismissed this week.

Five years since the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 pandemic, how has the workplace changed?

Ministers 'fully accept principle of pregnancy loss bereavement leave' and take forward amendments to include miscarriage in workers' rights.

Despite financial pressure from national insurance and national living wage changes, the number of planned redundancies is falling.

An estate agent who felt demoted after he transferred to another branch where his desk would be in the middle...

As businesses optimise their office use, Lucinda Pullinger explores workspace flexibility and the art of finding the right mix for staff.