The Supreme Court has allowed Unison to appeal the Court of Appeal’s recent ruling on Employment Tribunal fees. The announcement, made on the 26th February, relates to Unison’s third challenge…
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed that an employee’s average commission must be included in their holiday pay. The judgement, published Monday (22nd February), set out how the European…
The UK will go to the polls on the 23rd of June to determine whether or not the country will stay in the European Union. Our membership of Europe impacts…
Sir Richard Branson recently led a ‘Corporate Day’ at the Virgin Management offices to highlight the ‘horrible experience’ of corporate culture. During the day Virgin Group employees had to work…
The Government has published draft legislation outlining how it plans to legislate gender pay gap reporting for all large UK businesses. The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations…
Recent research has found that a quarter of UK employees would rather clean their house than ask for a raise. Almost one in five (18%) would prefer to look for…
The Scottish Government has submitted plans to transfer certain functions of the UK Employment Tribunal service to the Scottish courts. But Holyrood’s commitment to scrapping Employment Tribunal fees could lead…
There are now less than two months to go until the introduction of the Government’s mandatory National Living Wage. From April 1st the new National Minimum Wage rates (including the…
A dyslexic employee has won an Employment Tribunal against coffee retail chain Starbucks. Meseret Kumulchew, a barista at a Starbucks in Clapham, London, suffered discrimination in her role after she…
An electronics shop in Northampton found itself inundated with applicants when it held an open recruitment event. 150 hopeful job hunters queued outside of the CeX shop in Weston Favell, Northampton in…
