Employment Law Updates

The Government have reported that it will enforce workers’ rights from their first day in a new job. On 7th February, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said it had acted on “all but one of Matthew Taylors 53 recommendations.” It has been proposed that the Good Work Plan will ensure that all […]

It has been reported that traditionally, the first Monday in February is the day in which the greatest number of employees in the UK take the day off due to illness. It is suggested that this is down to a number of factors; this is the first pay weekend since Christmas, meaning a lot of […]

Following the undercover investigation conducted by the Financial Times, the issue of liability for third-party harassment has once again been again been challenged. On this occasion, female hostesses are believed to have been subjected to sexual harassment by male guests at a high-profile charity event. It has been claimed that the female employees were groped […]

An investigation conducted by the BBC Radio 4’s File on Four programme disclosed that thousands of people from the UK had purchased fake degree certificates from a “diploma mill” in Pakistan, which promotes courses from a number of universities that do not exist. Findings showed that around 3,000 fake qualifications – including Phds and master […]

The Employment Tribunal has ruled that a manager of Poundland was unfairly dismissed for handing out free items to customers. It was heard in Watford Employment Tribunal that Mr Zia was fired after misusing a button on the till that allowed employees to give out free items in the event of a complaint or damaged […]

As an employer, it is your duty to ensure employees feel comfortable at their place of work.  Scope, a charity for individuals with a disability, reports that there are 13.3 million disabled people in the UK, at least 18% of those are adults of a working age. It was further reported that 3.4 million disabled […]

The festive excitement that makes people happy in December comes to a crash in January when everyone has to return to work. Christmas is now just a distant memory, January can therefore be perceived as the most depressing month of the year. According to the Metro, the third Monday in January is ‘Blue Monday’ – […]

(1)    Discrimination based on a perceived disability found as unlawful In the case of Chief Constable of Norfolk v Coffey, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld the decision made in the Employment Tribunal that a police officer did suffer direct discrimination because of a perceived disability. This came after Lisa Coffey’s employer refused her a transfer as there […]