Just Employment Law Blog

Employment law reform has recently become a hot topic for the mainstream political media in a way that perhaps we have not seen since the 1970s. The reforms to unfair dismissal law and tribunal procedure proposed by the coalition last week are set to have a significant impact on employment rights for employers and employees alike...

As regular readers of our blog will be aware, there has recently been a tide of court judgments upholding the rights of long-term absentees to receive holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations, whether during or on termination of employment. Employers will therefore welcome a new decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) which provides that such employees may only be entitled to receive paid annual leave if they actually apply for holidays whilst they remain off sick. 

The National Minimum Wage broke the £6 barrier for the first time on 1 October 2011.

The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 are due to come into force on 1 October 2011. The Regulations introduce new rights for agency workers by providing them with the same rights as employees of the organisation hiring them, subject to certain conditions... 

On 1 September 2011 ACAS launched guidance on its website to help UK employers and employees get to grips with cyber issues which are estimated to cost businesses millions of pounds every year...

The annual statistics for the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal tribunal for April 2010 to March 2011 have recently been published...

A new Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) judgment has determined that a worker who had been on sick leave for an entire leave year was entitled to a payment in respect of that previous year’s full annual holiday entitlement, when shortly after the start of the new leave year her employment was terminated.

Regular readers of our updates will know that (subject to transitional arrangements where the process started prior to 6 April this year) it is no longer possible for UK employers to compulsorily retire employees at a particular age unless they are able to establish an ‘employer-justified’ retirement age...

The UK Supreme Court has decided that a teaching assistant was not after all entitled to legal representation at disciplinary proceedings related to allegations of sexual misconduct with a child...

In a recent case an employee, Mr Cherfi (C) brought a claim against his employer (G4S) for discrimination following their refusal to allow him to leave work to attend Friday prayers at a Mosque.