The ET has held in Martin and others v Professional Match Game Officials Ltd ET/2802438/08 that four assistant referees who were forced to retire at 48 were subjected to age discrimination but were not unfairly dismissed....
The European Union is to legislate a "right to be forgotten online" to prevent, for example, prospective employers finding Facebook party photos of someone posted online of a night that would best be forgotten....
The Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, Mark Prisk, has revealed a range of measures aimed at helping UK businesses grow....
According to figures released from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) unemployment across the UK has reached its highest level for 17 years of 8%....
According to Personnel Today 32% of companies surveyed said that they would facilitate flexibile working to enable staff to see the 2012 Games and 44% said that they would actually encourage staff to attend the Games....
According to figures released from the Office for National Statistics a private sector worker earns £81 less a week than his/her equivalent state worker....
Small firms with fewer than 10 employees may be able to avoid granting employees parental rights according to details leaked in the Sunday Telegraph....
Migrants from outside the European Economic Area will no longer be able to come to the UK to work as chefs in takeaways from April this year....
Lord Sugar has said that laws banning employers from asking women about children and childcare plans during job interviews are counterproductive....
A survey compiled by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development heaps more criticism on the current Employment Tribunal System....
According to figures published by the TUC at the opening of the TUC Women`s Conference in Eastbourne this week, female unemployment has risen by 71,000 over the past year....
Actor Charlie Sheen has reportedly been fired from the hit US sitcom Two and a Half Men by Warner Bros Television....
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has called for the Chancellor to assist retail business....
On Friday 3rd March 2011, Wales voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Assembly being granted direct law-making powers. "To demand respect you must first display self-respect," said the Deputy First Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones. "Today we have done just that."...
It has been reported that a man dismissed after he had been charged with murder but before he had been convicted of the offence lost his unfair dismissal claim. Roger Kearney was dismissed by Royal mail in January 2010 and convicted in June 2010....
The ET has held in Medhin v Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd t/a Restaurant Associates ET/2300304/10 that an employee who was dismissed for eating a muffin was unfairly dismissed....
In Stephens v Halfords plc ET/1700796/10 the Tribunal has held that an employee`s dismissal for posting negative comments on Facebook was unfair....
It has been reported that a former MP, Jim Devine, has been declared bankrupt after he failed to pay the compensation awarded by a Scottish Employment Tribunal in the sum of £35,000 to his ex Office Manager....
The BBC reported dozens of stickers circulated around gay pubs in Shoreditch and outside a Whitechapel school, consisting of numerous homophobic messages (‘Gay Free Zone`) and a reference to the Islamic Koran to support it....
Company found guilty of Corporate Manslaughter...