14 February 2026 · Tom Street, Solicitor On Monday, the first major batch of Employment Rights Act 2025 reforms comes into force. If you’re a trade union member, or you’ve ever worried about the consequences of taking industrial action, 18 February 2026 is a date worth knowing. These changes tilt the balance back towards workers in a way we haven’t seen for years. Here’s what’s actually changing, and what it …
4 February 2026 • By Tom Street Disclaimer: This article contains Tom Street’s personal opinion and commentary on employment policy. It is not legal advice for your specific circumstances. For advice on your individual situation, please contact us directly. Tom Street is a solicitor regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA No. 566718). Last week, investment minister Jason Stockwood told the Financial Times that the government is considering a Universal …
🔄 Updated for 2025/26 • Last reviewed: 26 January 2026 | By Tom Street Key Takeaways 515,000 people are waiting for employment tribunal hearings, with open cases up 33% year-on-year Tribunals received 26,000 new claims but only disposed of 10,000 cases in Q2 2025 Average wait time is now 12-18 months, and the Employment Rights Act 2025 will add millions more potential claimants At Breaking Point The employment tribunal system …
✓ Legal accuracy verified: 20 January 2026 Reviewed by Tom Street, Solicitor (SRA No. 566718) 20 January 2026 | By Tom Street On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court delivered its unanimous judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16. The For Women Scotland ruling, clarified that “sex”, “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex, not certificated sex through …
20 January 2026 | By Tom Street The legal team representing Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie has confirmed they will appeal the employment tribunal ruling in her case against NHS Fife, as well as two subsequent corrected versions of that judgment. This Sandie Peggie appeal is set to challenge the initial decisions made in her case. Peggie was suspended from her job in the A&E department at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy …
20 January 2026 | By Tom Street A Derbyshire police officer has been found guilty of gross misconduct after slapping a female colleague’s bottom, poking another colleague’s buttock, and sending sexually explicit messages to staff. PC Alexander Kimber resigned before the misconduct hearing took place in December 2025. The panel concluded he would have been dismissed had he still been serving, and his behaviour represented “discriminatory and/or harassing behaviour on …
17 January 2026 • By Tom Street Around 400 TikTok content moderators in London have been sacked, and three of them are now taking the social media giant to an employment tribunal. Their claim? That TikTok fired them specifically to stop them forming a union. The timing is striking. TikTok announced the redundancies on 22 August 2025, just seven days before workers were due to vote on union recognition. The …
16 January 2026 • By Tom Street An employment tribunal has found that eight nurses were unlawfully harassed by their NHS employer over its policy on single-sex changing facilities. The 134-page ruling, delivered after a 16-day hearing with 24 witnesses and some 4,500 pages of evidence, is one of the first significant workplace decisions since the Supreme Court confirmed that “sex” under the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex. What …
15 January 2026 – By Tom Street An employment tribunal has found that Suffolk Police unlawfully discriminated against two male officers when it removed them from their team and replaced them with women. The force admitted knowing its actions were discriminatory but proceeded anyway. This case is a stark reminder of a principle that should be obvious but apparently isn’t: discrimination laws protect everyone, regardless of gender. What happened Two …
8 January 2026 | Tom Street, Solicitor Sometimes the law reaches a result that feels deeply unfair, even when it’s technically correct. A recent employment tribunal decision involving LNER and four long-serving train drivers is one of those cases. The four drivers, each with more than 40 years’ service, were denied ill-health severance payments because they were over 65 when their employment ended. One described feeling “cancelled as a person” …