With Workers’ Memorial Day (28th April) approaching, Partner Marcus Weatherby is critical of the Government’s current misguided attack on what it sees as ‘excessive health and safety provision’…
Employment specialist Anthea Christie considers the likely impact of a number of much-anticipated changes to employment law being introduced this month. Of particular concern to her is the doubling of the unfair dismissal qualifying period…
The coalition Government’s money-saving proposals to introduce fees for claimants in employment tribunals are set to fail, according to expert legal opinion.
The Government has decided to introduce a system of fees in Employment Tribunals. A consultation exercise asking for views on different options has just concluded. Paul Statham of Pattinson & Brewer solicitors, who co-chaired a committee of the Employment Lawyers Association, summarises their response. Continue reading
Damian Brooks, from our Employment department, wonders whether ‘efficiency’ is really the motivation behind forthcoming changes to Employment Tribunal procedure… Continue reading
With Glasgow Rangers Football Club going into administration, Jane Farrell – of our Employment department – looks at what ‘administration’ really means. Where do employees stand when a creditor puts the boot in?
In a unanimous judgment the London Central Employment Tribunal has awarded payments to former Woolworth group employees, following the collapse of the High Street giant.
Binder explains our employment law philosophy and considers the repercussions on jobs of the current economic downturn…
Anthea Christie – one of our employment law specialists in London – has been reading about a recent sex discrimination case in Belfast that should be of interest to employers and jobseekers alike.
Damian Brooks, from our York office, recently came across a fascinating report about sexual harassment in the workplace published by the American Economic Review. He wondered how its findings might go down this side of the pond…
