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Menopause and the workplace – government responds to Women and Equalities Committee’s report
Posted: 03/02/2023
The government has now published its response to the July 2022 report from the Women and Equalities Committee, Menopause and the workplace. While some of the recommendations in the report have been accepted, in full or in part, the headline workplace recommendations, including making the menopause a protected characteristic......>>
What to expect in employment law in 2023
Posted: 11/01/2023
Twelve months ago we published a similar article looking ahead to what 2022 might bring to the world of employment law. It is fair to say that while some predictions were borne out, 2022 also threw its fair share of curve balls - while we expected a double bank holiday for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June, for example......>>
Government publishes response to consultation on flexible working
Posted: 06/12/2022
The Department for Business, Education & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has this week published its response to the consultation on flexible working, which was published in September 2021, following the change to working practices brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic......>>
No good deeds go unpunished: benefit schemes and discrimination claims
Posted: 22/11/2022
An emerging line of case law offers some comfort to employers who introduce generous benefit schemes, only to be faced with discrimination claims concerning the terms and conditions (T&Cs) of the scheme. These cases will be of particular interest to employers who introduced generous schemes to assist employees during the Covid-19 pandemic......>>
Doing business in the UK: post-employment restrictions
Posted: 14/11/2022
Post-employment restrictions (also known as ‘restrictive covenants’) are contractual clauses prohibiting employees from doing something after their employment ends, such as taking clients with them to a competitor. In the USA, permissible post-employment restrictions are typically governed by state law (statutory and common law)......>>
ICO issues £4.4 million fine for information security breaches
Posted: 10/11/2022
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has this week fined Interserve Group Limited £4.4 million in respect of data security failures exposed by a phishing attack that compromised the personal data of up to 113,000 of its current and former employees......>>
Dismissal declared unfair where employee was unable to influence consultation process due to pre-agreed selection criterion leading to a pool of one
Posted: 24/10/2022
In the recent case of Mogane v Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and anor, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that a redundancy consultation is not meaningful if it takes place only after the decision has been made to apply a single selection criterion that inevitably leads to a pool of one......>>
Menopause: making it work at work
Posted: 18/10/2022
Tuesday 18 October marks World Menopause Day, and with last month seeing World Menopause & Work Day, it is fair to say that menopause is being talked about like never before. Societal attitudes are clearly – if gradually – changing. No more do women feel obliged to put up silently with ‘the change’ with public figures from Davina McCall to......>>
Time’s up – employee’s persistent lateness justifies her dismissal
Posted: 07/10/2022
Tijani v House of Commons Commission [2022] EAT 104. This case provides a useful reminder that dismissals for repeated minor matters of conduct can be justifiable, even if the employer’s disciplinary policy is not clear......>>
Changes to employment law: an update
Posted: 30/09/2022
In addition to the much-discussed abolition of the cap on bankers’ bonuses and the proposed changes to trade union laws, last week heralded two other potentially significant changes to employment law. The government has published the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill......>>

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