Latest News

Employee liability information

A transferor did not breach TUPE when it incorrectly told the transferee that its annual bonus scheme was non-contractual whereas it was in fact a contractual entitlement of the transferring staff. Regulation 11 of TUPE obliges a transferor to provide...

Big jump in February 2017 inflation measures

The UK inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), jumped to 2.3% in February (Index - 102.1), up from 1.8% in January. Other measures also saw significant increases: Inflation as measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) was 3.2% in...

Can religious headscarves be banned?

Sometimes, says the European Court of Justice ('ECJ'). However, one thing the decision has definitely not done is given the green light to any employer to ban headscarves in the workplace. The ECJ has handed down this important decision and...

Sickness absence in 2016

The rate of sickness absence in the UK workforce in 2016 was 4.3 days per worker, the lowest it’s been since the Office of National Statistics began collecting this data in 1993 (when it was 7.2 days per worker). Some headlines from the ONS data...

Sunday working and enhanced rights for shop workers where are they?

Despite the government’s plans to give local authorities the power to alter Sunday trading rules being defeated last year, provisions strengthening shop workers’ rights (contained in the Enterprise Act 2016) did get the go ahead. So what’s...
  • Page 1 of 10