Although the Employment Rights Bill is still making its way through parliament, there are a number of obligations coming into force this April.
Jo Faragher

Jo Faragher
Jo Faragher has been an employment and business journalist for 20 years. She regularly contributes to Personnel Today and writes features for a number of national business and membership magazines. Jo is also the author of 'Good Work, Great Technology', published in 2022 by Clink Street Publishing, charting the relationship between effective workplace technology and productive and happy employees. She won the Willis Towers Watson HR journalist of the year award in 2015 and has been highly commended twice.
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A HMRC worker who was sent a birthday card during sick leave has been awarded £25k for harassment by the employment tribunal.
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An Ofsted inspector who was sacked after brushing water off a child’s head was unfairly dismissed, according to the Court of Appeal.
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Santander has announced plans to close 95 branches across the UK, putting 750 jobs at risk.
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Mandatory disability workforce and pay gap reporting could have unintended consequences for disabled employees, according to research from the Business Disability Forum (BDF).
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A Met Police sergeant who brought 271 individual allegations to an employment tribunal has had all claims dismissed.
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Employment is shrinking fastest among young workers, according to data tracking by Employment Hero.
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Businesses should offset increased employment costs from April by encouraging staff to maximise their pension contributions, a financial services consultancy has advised.
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The Employment Lawyers’ Association wants the government to stop treating employment tribunals as a ‘poor relation’ to other court cases.
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EHRC warns 1,400 McDonald’s branches of legal action against harassment
by Jo Faragherby Jo FaragherThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has written to every branch of McDonald’s in the UK warning that owners could face action if they fail to protect staff from sexual harassment.
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Employers in the care sector must now prioritise recruiting workers from England, according to new rules laid before parliament this week.
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Return-to-office mandates could disadvantage more than a million disabled workers, according to new research.
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Schneider Electric will double the number of ex-military personnel it recruits in a bid to address a shortage of skills in the transition to green energy.
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Five years since the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 pandemic, how has the workplace changed?
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City law firm compelled to email staff to reassure them senior HR professional’s anti-Islam remarks do not represent its views.