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.
Employment rights
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 637
New collective rights needed
The umbrella body for trade unions has recommended that the government gives workers greater rights to negotiate together on the basis that everyone benefits.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 630
Labour market enforcment body
A new agency has been proposed which would bring together a number of different workers’ rights within a single framework making it simpler to bring claims.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 616
Payslips for all
The government has announced that all workers (as opposed to just employees) now have the right to receive a statement setting out their pay and hours worked.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 602
Good work plan
The government has set out a plan to reform employment legislation which it claims will result in a major improvement in workers’ rights and a fairer system.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 570
Enforcement of pay and rights
A new report has called for a range of steps to be taken to stop employers from taking advantage of their employees and calling for more workplace rights.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 565
Shifting the risk
A study has highlighted the lack of employment rights of workers contracted to work by sub-contractors, who cannot then bring claims against the main company.
Employment rights
Weekly issue 557
Responding to Taylor
The government has promised in its response to a review of employment practices issued last year that it will improve a number of different employment rights.
Employment rights
Weekly issue 552
Membership and activities
The law prohibits employers from denying someone a job because they a member of a trade union, which includes being active in relation to that membership.
Employment rights
Weekly issue 537
E-mail monitoring breach
The highest human rights court in Europe has said that it is a breach of privacy rules for employers to monitor email accounts that employees use for work.
Redundancy and Protective Awards
Weekly issue 537
Consultation rights
As workers must be allowed freedom to associate, unions must also have the right to pursue a claim to protect the right of all their members to be consulted.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 529
Employment Practices Review
The government published a study of UK working practices which recommends a number of ways to improve the rights of workers alongside freedoms for employers.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 57 - April 2001
Phone a friend?
Read about a case involving a John Lewis employee who successfully pursued an unfair dismissal claim in this section of Thompsons Solicitors' Labour and European Law Review.