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 73 - September 2002
Employment Rights Unit
Thompsons is the most experienced trade union and personal injury firm in the UK, campaigning for the rights of workers from offices nationwide and this website.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 73 - September 2002
Law must be changed to protect union rights
Thompsons is the most experienced trade union and personal injury firm in the UK, campaigning for the rights of workers from offices nationwide and this website.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 73 - September 2002
Time for European action
Thompsons is the most experienced trade union and personal injury firm in the UK, campaigning for the rights of workers from offices nationwide and this website.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 73 - September 2002
Sex and the City
Thompsons is the most experienced trade union and personal injury firm in the UK, campaigning for the rights of workers from offices nationwide and this website.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 528
Bespoke Evidence
When applying for an extension of time after a claim has been struck out, claimants relying on medical evidence have to ensure it relates to them specifically
Equality, discrimination and harassment
Weekly Issue 525
Testing, testing
If an employer fails to offer an alternative to a multiple choice test to candidates with conditions such as Asperger’s, that may be disability discrimination.
Definition of a worker
Weekly Issue 522
Civil servant
Recruitment to the civil service should be fair irrespective of whether the person was employed in a post in the civil service or appointed as a civil servant.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 521
Workers’ rights after Brexit
Workers’ rights art at risk after Brexit unless they are protected by the government following the negotiations, the TUC warns.
Equal pay
Weekly Issue 520
Gender pay gap data
The Government Equalities Office has launched a new service which allows the public to access gender pay gap information that large companies have to publish.
Definition of a worker
Weekly Issue 510
Know your status
Employees are personally contracted to work and have additional rights such as maternity/paternity leave as opposed to generally contracted workers.
Definition of a worker
Weekly Issue 510
Checklist approach
A checklist approach, which will see employees adopt work practices inconsistently, is an inaccurate indication of self-employment.
Employment tribunals and tribunal fees
Weekly Issue 506
Tribunal fees only "discourage" claims
Although the government accepts tribunal fees discourage potential claimants, it claims the increased referral to ACAS services counters this drop.