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 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.
Fixed-term, flexible and part-time workers
Weekly Issue 506
Temporary worker
The CJEU conclude that irrespective of how the concept of a worker was defined in national law, the critical issue was whether they were in an “employment relationship”.
Health and Safety
Weekly Issue 505
Tackling workplace stress
A TUC guide helps trade union health and safety representatives to encourage their employer to implement the HSE approach to tackling workplace stress.
Pensions
Weekly Issue 505
Survivor pension
The requirement to marry or enter into a civil partnership before the age of 60 applies equally to heterosexual and homosexual couples.
Employment rights
Weekly Issue 504
Flexibility for employers, none for workers
A significant minority of employers have practices it difficult for people on variable hours’ contracts to manage their work thereby implicating job security.
Personal Injury
Weekly Issue 504
Christmas assault
An assault committed by an employee after a company works party is too remote to hold the employer vicariously liable for.
Vulnerable and migrant workers
Weekly Issue 501
Rising insecurity at work
Working people are being forced into self-employed status by employers. Read about this matter in Thompsons Solicitors' Labour and European Law Review .
Redundancy and Protective Awards
Weekly Issue 501
Insensitive consultation
Read this article in issue 501 of Thompsons Solicitors' Labour and European Review to understand how employers are expected to act when conducting a redundancy consultation.