The provision of workplace equality and diversity training can afford employers a powerful defence...
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Some shop floors are rough and ready places where foul language abounds, but if a worker makes a...
The word 'disability' may summon images of people suffering from grave physical incapacity but, in...
Employers who are found to have discriminated on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity will...
In order to qualify for legal protection, whistleblowers must genuinely believe that the...
Online trading in a wide range of cryptocurrencies, tokens and vouchers has taken off in the past...
Many low-paid workers who have an essential role in keeping the nation moving are at particularly...
Any organisation that does not have an effective system of succession planning in place must face...
Stoicism is a 2,300-year-old system of ethics which guided the steps of such giants of classical...
Discriminatory acts or omissions may be seen as one-off incidents or as a sequence giving rise to...
The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission as regards the National...
An award of compensation is the most common remedy granted in cases of unfair dismissal, but...
Can a dismissal ever be fair if formal disciplinary procedures are dispensed with? A tribunal...
It is a fundamental feature of any free society that justice must be done in public, but how does...
Employers who fail to provide support and understanding to sick workers can expect to pay a high...
What is an employee? What is a worker? The answer to those perennially tricky questions has been...
Many employers are taking laudable steps to increase diversity in their workforces by recruiting...
The process of selecting staff for redundancy is fraught with legal pitfalls and seeking...
The vexed distinction between 'workers' and 'independent contractors' could hardly be more...
Sexual harassment proceedings against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein gave rise to a...
Fixed-term employment contracts mean what they say and expire at the end of their terms without...
Many companies have entered administration in response to the COVID-19 crisis but have retained...
Workplace whistleblowers who, in the public interest, disclose what they believe to be wrongdoing...
The consequences of discrimination in the workplace can be truly devastating and compensation...
Anyone who induces an employee to breach his or her contract is guilty of a civil wrong and can...
Ascertaining exactly why an employee has been dismissed can be a complicated process. In a case on...
UK equality watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued new technical...
If you are paid less than a colleague of the opposite sex for doing like work or work of equal...
Managing a sick employee's return to work can be tricky and employers who fail to act fairly risk...
Workplace practices that result in employees being treated less favourably because of their age...
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