The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the economy worldwide and affected many different industries, including the banking and financial industry. The current situation has given rise to a range of complicated issues for the financial sector to consider when trying to

In a landmark ruling, the Court of Appeal has stated that employers can enhance maternity pay while only offering statutory pay to workers on shared parental leave (SPL). Capita and Leicestershire Police are the latest employers involved in a court battle

A pregnant office manager who faced a ‘hostile, humiliating and offensive environment’ has won claims for unfair dismissal and pregnancy discrimination, an East London employment tribunal has ruled. Eilise Walker was put in a position where she felt both ‘intimidated

Teachers across the UK have been awarded £14.9m in compensation over the past 12 months after suffering “appalling treatment” in attacks from pupils and discrimination at work, a teachers’ union has claimed. In 2018, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union

A trainee emergency call operator who was using off-the-shelf caffeine supplements was racially discriminated against during a drug investigation in the workplace, a London tribunal rules. Jerry Ogbonna was suspended without pay for five days by employers Partnership of East

A heating engineer from Kent, who won a claim against Pimlico Plumbers at the Supreme Court in June 2018, has now lost his claim for £74,000 in annual leave as he had not filed the paperwork quickly enough, an employment

A police constable in the response team at Devon and Cornwall Police who was taken away from front line duties and placed in a desk-based role was the subject of pregnancy discrimination and indirect discrimination, an employment tribunal rules. On

A woman on maternity leave was unfavourably treated, but not discriminated against, when her employer sent an important email regarding redundancy plans to an email address she could not access, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled. Mrs Pease began her

A woman who worked for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been awarded £19,000 after an employment tribunal in Cardiff found her former employer denied her a promotion based on her gender. Olwen Renowden missed out on a promotion

An employment tribunal found that Susana Benavides, a 43-year-old cleaner at Topshop, was unfairly dismissed for trade union activities. In March 2016, Mrs Benavides helped to organise a 200-person protest against the rates for agency cleaners in front of the

A police force has been found guilty of discrimination after it refused to give a “well prepared” potential recruit a job because he was a white, heterosexual man. As the first reported case of its kind in the UK, an

One in three breastfeeding women are being forced to use the bathrooms at work to express milk due to a lack of suitable facilities, a new survey finds. The research of 2,000 mothers who had a baby within the last

The government has announced a number of proposals meant to bring UK employment law into the modern era. The Good Work Plan, if enacted in full, would bring 51 of the Taylor Review’s 53 recommendations on modern working practices into

69 per cent of MPs believe the new reporting requirements on gender, ethnicity and executive pay is a ‘good start’ but not enough, according to a recent YouGov poll. Commissioned by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), the report revealed

Under a new government proposal, expectant mothers returning to work will receive greater protection from redundancy, extending the ‘protection period’ against dismissal up to six months after they return to work. The 10-week consultation also recommends this be applied to

Uber has lost its second appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed. In 2016, a tribunal ruled that Uber drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were workers of the company and should

Young Women’s Trust (YWT) is urging the government to crack down on employers after study reveals that one in five young workers (20 per cent of young women and 16 per cent of young men) are illegally paid less than

Workers’ rights in the UK are still at risk even if a Brexit deal is reached, according to a new study from a major think tank. Protection for workers ‘not strong enough’ The Institute for Public Policy Research warns that