In spite of the political turmoil in the UK in 2022, the government did pick up a number of legislative priorities after the hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we anticipate a number of developments in employment law in the year ahead. In this article, we summari...
Welcome to our monthly newsletter, with a summary of the latest news and developments in UK employment law. Our December 2024 update looks at the latest proposed employment law reforms, including plans to extend the time limits for bringing ET claims to six months, as well as details of a n...
Thus, there is a significant gap between law in the statute books and law in action. Additionally, two-tier labor market reform has contributed to the growing dualism between insiders and outsiders and might explain why deregulation of temporary employment has been the name of the game in the ...
legislation) or constituted an amendment (effectively "turning the scheme inside out"). The EAT dismissed the appeal: the ET made no error of law in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider indirect discrimination claims under section 19 where claimants do not share the protected...
In the United Kingdom, the legal meaning of ‘sex’ is unclear due to a conflict between the definitions of ‘sex’ under two pieces of legislation: the Equality Act (“EA”) 2010 (the UK’s anti-discrimination legislation) and the Gender Recognition Act (“GRA”) 2004 (the UK’s gend...
The Government expects to begin consulting on these reforms in 2025. As for coming into force, a small number of the changes relating to trade union law reform, are to come into force two months after the Bill is passed. However, the majority of the changes will not be brought into ...
This has all changed, however, in the last 12 months, in which time the UK Government has passed a high number of new pieces of employment legislation, impacting areas such as worker protection, flexible working, annual leave and family friendly rights. This has resulted in a lot of ...
The question of unfair dismissal figures too often in employment law to leave the operation of Clause 8 to chance. He had become well versed in employment law. He was well versed in employment law. All stand to gain from such legislation and comparative employment law can be used to empower...
CalChamber’s employment law experts have wrapped up their analysis of the employment-related legislation that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law in 2023 and... CalChamber Issues Statement on Signing of SB 253 and SB 261 Human Resources / Health and Safety Denise Davis - October ...
The contrasting cases of Germany and the UK are revealing about policy trade-offs January 2 2025 UK economy Problems with UK economy data could be widespread, warns lawmaker Meg Hillier highlights damaging consequences of under-investment in key forecasting systems ...