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 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.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 660
Outdated skills
Research has found that more than a third of UK workers have received very little coaching over the last five years to bring their levels of expertise up to date.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 652
Protect workers’ rights
Following the election last year, a survey has found that most of those who voted wanted workplace rights to not just be protected but also to be improved.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 639
Enforcing workers’ rights
Research into the legal entitlements of workers found that older and younger workers in particular may not receive the correct pay or the correct annual leave.
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.