Employment Law News

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…

Employment Law News 26/09/2016

Employment law changes: October 2016 and beyond

Employment law changes: October 2016 and beyond By Bar Huberman at Personnel Today on 15 Sep 2016 Matthew Chattle/REX/Shutterstock. 82 The autumn months promise to be a busy period for HR practitioners as they get…

Employment Law News, W.E.U. News 01/05/2016

Dismissal over erratic behaviour was disability discrimination

Dismissal over erratic behaviour was disability discrimination By Stephen Simpson on 29 Apr 2016 An employment tribunal has held that it was discrimination arising from disability for an employee with mental health problems to be…

Employment Law News, W.E.U. News 11/01/2016

Trade Union Bill may violate human rights, Tories’ own watchdog warns

Published time: 11 Jan, 2016 13:32 © Toby Melville / Reuters 40 The Conservative government’s Trade Union Bill may impose “potentially unlawful” restrictions on the right to strike, the government’s own human rights watchdog has warned…

Employment Law News 06/11/2015

Warehouse worker, 27, is fired for bullying after he ‘liked’ a Facebook picture which mocked a colleague’s wolf-print fleece

Dear Member We are not sure how accurate this story is but it definitely gives a warning to anyone who uses Facebook etc. The consequences can be very serious for inappropriate use. Please think before…

Employment Law News, W.E.U. News 03/09/2015