HR Articles

Last week the Government published its response to the Women and Equalities Committee’s first report on transgender equality.

The European Court of Justice has recently reaffirmed, in the case of in Sobczyszyn v Skola Podstawowa w Rzeplinie, that where a worker is unable to take their annual leave before the end of the holiday year due to sickness they will be entitled to carry it over to the following holiday year.

Do you work in a collaborative culture? Collaboration sounds good, but probably more talked about than applied. Many businesses would say they are collaborative. Are they really?

In the first appellate decision on the scope of settlement negotiations under s.111A Employment Rights Act 1996 (Faithorn Farrell Timms LLP v Bailey) (“Bailey”),

In an age where employees are easily able to copy, store and upload confidential information, employers are having to become increasingly vigilant to prevent such information ending up in the wrong hands.

Unionised UK businesses will wonder what the future holds for UK unions if, as expected, the UK exits the EU and its relatively socialist model of employment relations.

In practice, although reinstatement (and reengagement) orders are theoretically the first remedy that should be considered by a tribunal, they are ordered in less than 1% of cases.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal in Phoenix House Ltd v Stockman & Anor upheld a Tribunal’s decision that the dismissal of an employee on the basis of an irretrievable breakdown in the working relationship was unfair but disagreed that the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures applied to such a situation.

This is one of the conclusions reached by the House of Commons Justice Committee ("Justice Committee") in its recent report.

Across the UK many businesses, large and small, are troubled by what the next few years might mean for the UK economy. This anxiety feeds into employee engagement and industrial relations.