Workplace Wellbeing
Focuses on strategies for rest, recovery, work-life balance, and creating safe, positive working environments.
Dismissal Was Disability Discrimination
By Stephen Simpson on 29 April 2016
An employment tribunal has held that it was discrimination arising from disability for an employee with mental health problems to be dismissed without a prope...
Hostility to WEU Member Was Unlawful
Legal Framework
The dispute revolved around Section 146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A), which protects workers from suffering an unlawful detriment for ...
Employers Can Legally Monitor Personal Messaging
Background of the ECHR Judgment
In a case put before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), judges ruled that a company which had read an employee’s messages sent through Yahoo Messenger while ...
TUC Poll on Work Christmas Party Embarrassment
More than one in ten (11%) workers who have attended a work Christmas party admit embarrassing themselves in front of their boss, according to new polling published by the TUC today.
Drinking and...
Annual Leave
Most workers in England are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid annual leave per year. This is known as statutory entitlement. Part-time employees receive a pro rata amount, matching the holiday ...
WEU Opposes the Trade Union Bill 2015
The Workers of England Union stands firmly against the Trade Union Bill 2015. We echo Jeremy Corbyn’s view that the government is “attacking working people” by introducing this legislation. Even so...
Mobile Workers’ Commute as Working Time
By Jo Faragher on 10 Sep 2015 in Case law, Employment law, Mobile workers, Working Time Regulations
ECJ Confirms Travel Time as Working Time
Journeys made by mobile workers must count as working ...
Redundancy: What Employers Must Follow
Tata Steel’s decision to make 250 people redundant at its Llanwern steel works to cut costs highlights the emotional toil on both employer and employee. Every organisation should consider how to ma...
No Special Rules for Social Media Misconduct
Be careful what you say about your workplace and colleagues: there are no special rules when dismissing an employee for social media misconduct. The test remains whether the decision was within the...
Metrolink Managers’ Loose Talk May Close Trams
Press Release – For Immediate Release | 30th July 2015
Overheard Conversation Reveals Critical Weaknesses
On 22nd July 2015, two Metrolink managers were overheard discussing confidential operatio...
