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December 2022 Exclusivity clauses in employment contracts restrict workers from taking on additional work with other employers. In May 2015, their use was banned in zero hours contracts in Great Britain, which are contracts under which work is not guaranteed to the...

Where an employee has been dismissed for asserting a statutory right, which includes the statutory right to take a reasonable amount of unpaid time off for dependent leave, they do not require the usual 2 years’ minimum employment service to bring a claim for unfair...

World Menopause Day - 18th Oct It's World Menopause Day. The day is to raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support options available for improving health and wellbeing. We have sent through a few cases over the last few weeks to highlight, that...

World Menopause day is 18th October and we want to join the conversation. The day is to raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support options available for improving health and wellbeing. Today we have highlighted another tribunal case which is centred...

World Menopause day is 18th October and we want to join the conversation. The day is to raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support options available for improving health and wellbeing. I will be highlighting some cases in October, which have made it...

Employee awarded £22k Employers can rely on health and safety grounds for dismissing an employee, provided that they can prove this is the genuine reason for the dismissal. The employee in this case was employed as a quality inspector in a chicken processing factory...

The Supreme Court has concluded in Harpur Trust v Brazel that part-year workers should not have their leave entitlement calculated on the same principle, proportionally, as full-time employees (which would mean that the weeks they don't work reduce their entitlement),...

New Regulations With effect from 1st July 2022 new regulations came into force, which will expand the category of people who can sign statements of fitness for work, or "fit notes", for the purposes of statutory sick pay and social security claims. Registered nurses,...

An employment tribunal has held that an employee with long Covid symptoms was disabled within the meaning of the Equality Act 2010. Mr Burke was employed as a caretaker from April 2001. In November 2020 he caught Covid and, after initially mild symptoms, developed...