Employment Law News

Employment Law News, Latest News 08/03/2024

Government publishes final Statutory Code of Practice governing fire and rehire practices

Article by Amanda Steadman from Braham Dutt Badrick French LLP Employers sometimes try to enforce contractual amendments on their workforce by using a “fire and rehire” strategy – terminating employment and offering to hire staff…

Employment Law News, Latest News 23/01/2024

Term time working and Annual Leave

Details The Supreme Court held that workers who are on permanent contracts, but who are only required to work for part of the year (e.g. workers on term-time-only or zero-hours contracts), are entitled to a…

Employment Law News, Latest News 22/01/2024

Employment Law changes in 2024

Article from NR Magazine By Emma Williams, employment associate, and Nicole Akinyemi, trainee solicitor, at Katten Muchin Rosenman UK Here is a summary of the changes that can be expected in 2024: Streamlining TUPE consultations …

Employment Law News, Latest News 12/01/2024

Guidance on Holiday pay and entitlement reforms from 1 January 2024

This guidance sets out the changes to the Working Time Regulations which the government introduced on 1 January 2024. It does not provide definitive answers to all individual queries. It is not intended to be…

Employment Law News, Latest News 23/06/2023

New guidance sheds light on an employer’s approach to Data Subject Access Requests

Article by Stephen Marwood Background In May 2023, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO“), the UK Data Protection Authority, issued updated guidance in the form of a Q&A for employers on workers’ Data Subject Access Requests (“DSARs“). The…

Employment Law News, Latest News 22/06/2023

UK: Royal Assent for Bills on enhanced rights for parents and carers, but implementing regulations unlikely to be in force before 2024

Article by Herbert Smith Freehills llp Three Private Members’ Bills expanding rights for parents and carers received Royal Assent on 24 May 2023. When in force, they will provide for: the right to paid leave…

Employment Law News, Latest News 02/05/2023

Settlement Agreements – what you need to know

It is not every day that you leave a job. In most cases, people leave because they have another job to go to and they are resigning at their own behest. However, what happens if…

Employment Law News, Latest News 20/04/2023

Is saying “I’m done” enough to terminate employment?

Resignation does not need to be in writing (although it should be if that is required under the contract of employment), it can be given orally or in some cases via conduct. When a resignation…

Employment Law News, Latest News 22/02/2019

Most businesses’ job adverts contain ‘male bias’

Article by HR Magazine’s Rachel Muller-Heyndyk, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 More than half (60%) of businesses exhibit male bias in job adverts as a result of gendered language, according to research by Adzuna The jobsite used an…

Employment Law News, Latest News 08/03/2018

Employment law timeline 2018 – 2019

Employment law changes 2018 30 March 2018 Gender pay gap reporting for public sector employers Public sector employers must publish first reports before this date (with a snapshot date of 31 March 2017). 1 April…

Employment Law News 06/03/2018

Employment law update 2017-2018

Here we summarise the latest employment law changes and legal updates. Acas are the employment relations experts and a trusted source of advice for employers, employees, Government and others. The Government has introduced several new…

Employment Law News 22/10/2017

Grand Chamber reverses European Court of Human Rights decision on employee monitoring

October 18 2017 An employer who accessed intimate messages between an employee, his fiancée and his brother sent in working time on Yahoo! Messenger had unreasonably restricted the rights of staff to use the internet…

Employment Law News, Latest News 21/09/2017

Legal lowdown: Employees’ right to privacy

The case Bărbulescu v Romania shows the need to strike a fair balance between employees’ privacy and a company’s access to information The important recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) examines…

Employment Law News, W.E.U. News 28/12/2016

Employment law changes 2017

Eight priorities for HR By Qian Mou from Personnel Today Significant employment law changes are anticipated for 2017, amid the ongoing uncertainty resulting from the Brexit referendum. Large compliance projects for data protection and gender pay gap reporting…