On Wednesday, the BBC, Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail and others reported that 58.8 per cent of UK university graduates are working in jobs that do not require a degree, according to research commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD). This startling figure was...
Moreover, there is no rule of law that “it must be certain, or likely to some particular degree, that the employee will be successful in a trial”. The EAT clarified that any change which might avoid the substantial disadvantage may be capable of being a relevant step, the question is ...
" and that a different colleague had said to the Claimant: "You are only doing this to me as I am old, black and fat". The EAT confirmed that where a claimant compares his treatment to another, the ET must consider whether there are material differences between the claimant and t...
degree. An LL.M. in employment law can provide new or practicing lawyers with an added skill set and the expertise necessary to advise large and small businesses on a range of issues. Both types of programs are available with distance learning courses from several universities. Some schools ...
LOCAL companies attending a business seminar believe UK employment laws have become more complex which has led to increasing workloads and red tape.The views were voiced at a recent business seminar organised by recruitment services provider Pertemps in Newcastle, with an employment law expert from ...
The Employment Rights Bill was introduced to Parliament on 10 October 2024, representing the biggest change to UK employment law since the 1990s. Delivering on its promise to introduce legislation within 100 days of coming into power, the new Labour government’s Bill ...
In the academic law library hiring process, candidates are assessed based on a variety of factors. The study conducted here focuses on education—specifically the institutional rank of degree-granting law and library science institutions—to explore how the rank of one's graduate education might infl...
A basic principle of good employment law, you would think, should be that you can tell an employer when you are caught by it and when you are not. An early fail then for the rules around worker status, in particular following the EAT’s recent decision in Johnson –v- Transopco UK Li...
In terms of employment law, a fair amount of UK employment legislation introduced by EU directives merely supplemented rights which were already part of UK national law. In fact, in some areas, UK employment law goes even further than EU provisions, such
This report analyses the latest research & statistics on the UK graduate market. Get the latest facts & figures for 2025 here.