Image Source Generally, severe weather conditions like heavy snowfall or rain cause widespread disruption of employment services. While schools shut down, employees struggle to get to work. Considering alternative means of travel is one option during bad weather. However, many working professionals take the day off and stay at home because it is not safe to travel. What many people don’t realise is that it often means they won’t get …
What are reasonable adjustments? When organisations employ disabled workers, they must put in place reasonable adjustments at work to: Remove substantial disadvantage (more than minor or trivial). This is where a provision criteria or practice puts a disabled person at a disadvantage compared to those who are not disabled; Provide an auxiliary aid. This is where not having an auxiliary aid would put a disabled person at a significant disadvantage; …
On 31st October 2017 parents took to the streets in 6 cities across the UK to demand recognition, respect and change for working parents. Organised by the campaign group Pregnant then Screwed, the protestors made 6 demands: Increase the time limit to submit a tribunal claim for maternity and parental leave discrimination from three months to six months (at the very least); Ensure companies report on how many flexible working …
How are employees compensated in discrimination cases over and above the loss of earnings that they may have incurred by way of an injury to feelings award. Injury to feelings awards are, unlike unfair dismissal awards, unlimited. The Tribunal will, if it considers that an employee has suffered discrimination, try to compensate that individual so that they are put in the position they would have been had the discrimination not …
Radio 4 is running the story of an unfair dismissal case as part of its Untold Story series. Due to be broadcast at 11am on Monday 6th November. The opening story features care home employee, Rachel Burns as she prepares for an Employment Tribunal.
Michael Fallon resigns as Defence Secretary, following an allegation of sexual harassment, his resignation letter states that “in the past” his behaviour “had fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces”. The Allegation Whilst there may be other allegations of harassment in the swirl of accusations, denials and apologies circling around Westminster as part of the list of 40 MPs including 15 Ministers who are deemed …
🔄 Updated for 2025/26 • Last reviewed: 15 January 2026 Written and reviewed by: Tom Street, Solicitor Principal, Tom Street & Co. Solicitors (SRA No. 566718) Last updated: 15 January 2026 ⏱️ 15 minute read Quick Summary A provision, criterion or practice (PCP) is a workplace rule, requirement or way of doing things that applies to everyone but puts people with a protected characteristic at a disadvantage. PCPs are central …
In a bid to narrow the gender pay gap (the difference between the pay of male and female employees) the government introduced legislation requiring all employers with over 250 staff to publish details of their pay gap by March or April 2018. Recently released figures show that only 85 of a possible 9000 organisations have so far complied. The 9000 employers account for just over half of all jobs in …
As of 2013 (the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013) Claimants in whistle-blowing claims have to establish that the public interest disclosure that they rely upon was made “in the public interest”. A recent Court of Appeal decision, Chesterton Global Limited & Another v Nurmohamed & Another [2007 EWCA Civ 979] has provided some additional insights as to what “in the public interest” means. In this case, there was some debate …
Ramadan is a worldwide month of fasting observed by Muslims in the ninth month of the Islamic Calendar. Ramadan will next fall on the 16th May 2018 until the 14th June 2018. Muslims avoid eating or drinking liquids between daybreak and sunset. There are exceptions for the ill, diabetics, breastfeeding mothers and other groups who may suffer in health terms by fasting. The pre-dawn meal is called the suhur …