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.
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Employment rights
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 746
Unlawful inducements
Unions are entitled to negotiate pay deals for their members without interference from employers who try to undermine their efforts with some type of incentive.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 735
Continuing consequences
When deciding if a claim is out of time, tribunals must distinguish between those instances when an act is a single event as opposed to one that is sustained.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 731
Tribunals at crisis point
Recent research has revealed an extensive list of problems within the workings of the court system which have been exacerbated by the recent health crisis.
Employment rights
Weeky Issue 722
Strike out interests
It is for claimants to decide whether they feel fit enough to pursue their claim, whereas tribunals can only decide whether they are fit enough to take part.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 720
Improve workers’ rights
A new study has found that the vast majority of people polled want workplace entitlements to be improved so that they are more or less the same for all workers.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 717
Tribunals are courts
As tribunals are also courts, they have the right to adjudicate in certain specified scenarios under the law, such as making a judgment against an underwriter.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 700
Extension to early conciliation
The government has made changes to the law for resolving conflicts in order to streamline the process and make it more responsive to the needs of the parties.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 693
Labour market enforcement
The government has published aspects of a range of measures that it says it will take in order to ensure that rights at work are safeguarded and implemented.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 690
Tribunal changes
The government has announced a series of changes to the ways in which tribunals currently run, which they claim will help the system cope better in the future.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 687
Case management
The appeal court has held that, as tribunals have the right to decide how to deal with issues such as delaying hearings, the decision cannot be wrong in law.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 682
Out on a limb
A tribunal has held that it was legal for the government to introduce regulations protecting jobs during a crisis which excluded a certain class of worker.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 680
Workers need more protection
Vulnerable workers who require protection from being exploited are even more at risk as a result of the recent health pandemic, according to a recent report.