Employment Law Review

Pensions

The appeal tribunal has ruled that employers cannot avoid the requirement to ensure equality in their superannuation schemes by relying on a legal provision.

Pensions

Because women earn less than men over their lifetimes and may take a break to have children, overall they struggle more than men to save for their retirement.

Pensions

In order to decide whether employers can legitimately make age-related changes to pension schemes, they have to have evidence that they are not discriminatory.

Pensions

Local government bodies cannot enforce a rule requiring employees to nominate an unmarried partner who they live with in order to receive a survivor’s pension.

Pensions

The requirement to marry or enter into a civil partnership before the age of 60 applies equally to heterosexual and homosexual couples.

Pensions

Thompsons Solicitors considers the case of a transgender woman who was denied a pension due to her mairtial status in this section Labour and European Law Review.

Employment rights

Thompsons Solicitors look at the factors a tribunal must consider when deciding if an expatriate worker falls under UK employment law in this section of LELR from October 2016.

Agency workers

Thompsons Solicitors' analysis of this case shows that claimants must show their comparator's situation is similar but lacks the protected charateristic being complained about.

Equality, discrimination and harassment

Pensions

Pensions

Thompsons Solicitors warns of the threat to the rights of employees from the government's TUPE proposals in this issue of Labour and European Law Review from March 2013.

Pensions

Thompsons Solicitors focus on the government's TUPE consultation in this section of Labour and European Law Review from March 2013.