Employment Law Review
Thompsons’ Employment Law Review is recognised as an authoritative source of comment and discussion from our trade union law specialists. Available to read here, and also via a weekly email bulletin, the Employment Law Review offers considerable insight into the latest issues affecting trade unions and their members.
Latest Issues
Weekly Issue 863
- Record numbers on zero-hours contracts
- Green and grey differences
- Constructive dismissal
Weekly Issue 862
- Unaffordable paternity rights
- Justifying discrimination
- Long term planning
Industrial Action
Weekly Issue 847
Proposal to use agency workers during strike action
Despite an earlier court defeat, the government is again proposing the introduction of new laws to allow agency workers to be hired during labour stoppages.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 847
Clarity in complaints
Although tribunals have the power to prohibit a claim outright, the appeal tribunal has made clear they must follow certain rules when considering that option.
UK Law
Weekly Issue 847
Not closely connected
When asserting that an employer is responsible for the acts of a third party, a claimant has to show that both parts of the appropriate test have been met.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 846
ILO calls for improved worker protection
This issue looks at a critique of UK employment rights, when employers can sack inflexible workers and the nexus between detriment and bonus in discrimination.
Fixed-term, flexible and part-time workers
Weekly Issue 846
Providing effective care
A tribunal has ruled that employers can sack a worker who refuses to adopt a more flexible working pattern which is needed to achieve certain important goals.
Equality, discrimination and harassment
Weekly Issue 846
Not disadvantaged by an advantage
When claiming indirect discrimination, the appeal tribunal has made clear that complainants cannot claim a detriment as a result of having been denied a bonus.
Maternity/Parental rights
Weekly Issue 845
Obstacles facing women returners
Research carried out by a feminist organisation has identified a number of different barriers facing women who want to come back to work after having a baby.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 845
Failure to comply
Tribunals have extensive powers that they can use to end a complaint, for instance where the claimant did not abide by an order to provide certain information.
Redundancy and Protective Awards
Weekly Issue 845
Reasonable refusal
When considering if a job has become obsolete and a suitable one offered in its place, tribunals must ask certain questions including the view of the claimant.
Zero hours contracts
Weekly Issue 844
Code of practice on predictable working hours
New guidance for employers who employ workers with hours that they cannot predict has been published for discussion and consideration by interested parties.
Working time and holiday pay
Weekly Issue 844
Holiday pay deductions
The highest court in the land has given its judgment in a lengthy case which has been concerned with how employers should calculate payment during annual leave.
Whistle-blowing
Weekly Issue 844
Chain of causation
The appeal tribunal has said that when trying to identify whether a causal sequence has been breached, tribunals must find the single cause of the alleged loss.