Employment Law

An Employment Appeal Tribunal judge sitting in Edinburgh has ruled that an employment judge did not err in deciding that evidence of pre-termination negotiations was inadmissible in an ongoing claim for unfair dismissal raised by a former employee of a car repair garage. Kevin Gallagher raised a cla

Robert Holland takes a look at the UK government's new Employment Bill. The bill unveiled yesterday is undoubtedly the biggest employment rights shake-up since the 1999 Employment Relations Act 25 years ago, and in legislative length only matched by the 1975 Employment Protection Bill. However, it i

The UK government has published a "once in a generation" set of employment rights reforms.  The Employment Rights Bill contains 28 individual employment reforms, from ending zero hours contracts and fire and rehire practices to establishing day one rights to protection against unfair dismissal

A woman whose job offer with the police was withdrawn because she was on antidepressants is taking her case to the Employment Tribunal. Laura Mackenzie, from Inverness, was sent for a medical and was to be fitted for a uniform before her provisional offer was withdrawn.

Employers would be wise thinking ahead to prepare for the biggest changes to UK workplace laws in almost 30 years, lawyers at Lindsays have said. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has vowed that Labour will start to introduce a raft of new legislation affecting everything from sick pay to minimum wage

An apprentice digital media executive has been awarded £50,000 after she suffered victimisation and discrimination at work because she found maths "very difficult". Sophie Molyneux sued Apprentify, a firm that sources apprenticeships, after she was fired from a role at a business that trains p

The Labour Party has pledged to ban zero-hours contracts which it says are on the rise in Scotland. Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader and shadow secretary of state for the future of work, will today address the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) in Dundee, where she will say a Labour governme

A former employee of a bed and breakfast has been awarded £1,085 in outstanding holiday pay after he brought a case against his former employers before the Employment Tribunal. Nikolay Nikolov was employed by Craigatin House & Courtyard Ltd from September 2021 to July 2022. He argued that

3PB barristers Mathew Gullick QC, Lachlan Wilson and Naomi Webber have prevailed at the Supreme Court on behalf of their client, music teacher Lesley Brazel. The decision comes in the wake of her case being heard before an employment tribunal in 2017, the Employment Appeal Tribunal in 2018 and, most

A proliferation of Employment Tribunal claims arising from “no jab, no job” dismissals is of interest to employment lawyers north and south of the border. In 2021, the UK government issued regulations requiring staff working in Care Quality Commission-regulated facilities to be vaccinate

Employers should take care in offering shorter work hours to their employees over the summer, an employment law partner at Thorntons Solicitors has said. Chris Phillips made the comments after it emerged that Big Four accountancy firm PwC would offer staff shorter work hours on a Friday during the s

A Tesco worker who was ridiculed after being trapped in a room by his pregnant female boss and was later sacked has been awarded £50,000 for sex discrimination. Six-foot-tall Toby King told an employment tribunal that supervisors said “a big man” could not be frightened by a &ldquo

A woman who worked as a stripper has said the Employment Appeal Tribunal's refusal to grant her anonymity infringes her right to respect for a private and family life, The Gazette reports. The claimant in A v Burke and Hare had worked in Edinburgh and London and sought £1,846 for holiday

Being told to "grow up" does not amount to discrimination at work, a tribunal has ruled after a teenage hairdresser sued her employer. Jasmine Stunell, a hairdressing apprentice, was also told to “pull herself together”. She quit her job at the boutique salon and brought claims of discri

We are now starting to see employment tribunals grappling with Covid-19 related workplace issues. Some of these involve claims from employees with less than two years' service seeking to argue that their dismissals were automatically unfair for health and safety reasons, writes Julie Keir. Automatic