Employment Law Updates

A music teacher who ended up on a zero hours contract after his employment was transferred from a local authority to the private sector has scored a legal victory of importance to all fixed-term contract

The number of cases coming before employment tribunals has dramatically declined since the introduction of a controversial charging regime. However, the Court of Appeal has urged the Lord Chancellor to carry out a thorough review

Anyone tempted to vent their spleen against their employer on the Internet should take careful note of a case in which a canal worker was sacked after using a string of offensive expletives to describe

Temporary agency workers are entitled to be treated in the same way as permanent staff. However, in an important decision, a tribunal has ruled that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) did nothing wrong when it

Jurisdiction can be a thorny issue in many employment disputes with an international flavour and one involving civilian workers at Britain’s two military bases on the island of Cyprus was a case in point. Nineteen

A finance professional who resigned on the basis that her position in the office hierarchy had been critically undermined while she was on maternity leave has had her compensation hopes boosted by an Employment Appeal

The interaction between sick leave and annual holiday leave poses a tricky problem for employers. However, in giving valuable guidance on the issue, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has improved the position of employees who

Failing to handle pay issues in accordance with the law can prove costly for employers. The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has published guidance, aimed at small employers and line managers in larger organisations,

Fatal injuries at work are, thankfully, rare, which means that the annual figures are subject to chance variation. However, over the last 20 years there has been a downward trend in the rate of fatal