8/10/2026 8:27:23 AM Employees to have six months to bring a tribunal claim from 1 October By Libby Hubbard Jackie Morris Working in August is always a bit of a struggle. Either you're reluctantly coming back from being on holiday, frantically preparing so...
10/23/2025 4:18:37 PM Employment Rights Bill - Update #12: consultation on trade union access and union information to staff By Libby Hubbard Half term approaches and the Government has given us some reading material as we hunker down to the dark nights of autumn/winter 2025. ...
5/19/2025 8:22:38 AM Is overheard 'banter' harassment? By Michael Brownlee Libby Hubbard Over the recent weeks, there have been concerns raised about the reintroduction of employer liability for third-party harassment of...
2/13/2025 5:10:08 PM Higgs v Farmor's School - proportionate responses and protected beliefs By Libby Hubbard The case of Kirstie Higgs and her previous employer, Farmor's School, has finally been decided by the Court of Appeal. Her dismissal was...
8/14/2024 8:49:06 AM Life after #MeToo – Employers must not wait until sexual harassment happens before taking action By Katherine Sinclair Seven years after the #MeToo movement in 2017 and five years after the UK government consultation on workplace sexual harassment in 2019,...
8/8/2024 3:49:48 PM EHRC guidance on protected characteristic of sex By Jackie Morris Newly updated guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was published last month concerning ‘discriminatory adverts’....
1/11/2024 9:47:52 AM Holiday entitlement guidance; heavy on confusion, light on clarification! By Anna Dabek We ended 2023 on a holiday note (see our round-up of 2023) and we are starting 2024 on the same topic. Before the accusations fly that...
12/19/2023 5:30:43 PM Draft guidance on gender questioning children finally released - an end of term treat for teachers! By Katherine Sinclair Esther Campsall Libby Hubbard If further proof was needed that politicians and teachers are not the greatest of friends, then the publication of draft guidance the...