HR Articles

In Bethnal Green and Shoreditch Education Trust v Ms Dippenaar, the EAT considered whether there was a provision, criterion or practice ("PCP")of dismissing senior, more expensive teachers and replacing them with less experienced recruits. Ms Dippenaar had 13 years' teaching experience and until 2012, her teaching had consistently been highly rated. Immediately following the appointment of a Head of Faculty, Ms Dippenaar started to receive negative teaching assessments which were in stark contrast to her previous assessments...

14 cleaners allege that they are being subjected to disciplinary action over a letter they sent to Philip Hammond (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs) asking to discuss the Living Wage.

Back in May, we reported that the provisions in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 that make exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts unenforceable had come into force.

The EAT has confirmed that an on-call night worker who lives at his place of work is only entitled to the National Minimum Wage for the time he is actually awake and carrying out his employment duties.

It has been reported this week that the Chief Executive of Sports Direct, Dave Forsey, is to face criminal charges for the failure on the part of a company of which he was company secretary, to inform the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) of proposed redundancies. The case serves as a timely reminder of how the mishandling of collective redundancies, typically in an insolvency situation, can land company directors/secretaries and company insolvency practitioners with criminal fines and disqualification from office.

The Glasgow bin lorry crash has raised some serious questions about the medical information that should be provided by individuals applying for a new job.

At the Conservative Party conference this week the Chancellor announced that the Government will extend shared parental leave and pay to working grandparents, to increase flexibility and choice in parental leave arrangements.

There's been a lot of discussion in the news this week about public sector pay, with a particular focus on the NHS.

On 1 October 2015, further provisions of the Deregulation Act 2015 ("Act") were put into place. There are a number of changes made by the most recent additions...

The recently published Immigration Bill, coming less than a year after the Immigration Act 2014 took effect, builds on the Conservative Government's objective to make Britain a more hostile environment for undocumented migrants.