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  • Pressure grows for regulation of smart glasses as legal risks are revealed

    Date:
    25 August 2026

    Employers should review their workplace policies as discreet smart glasses create fresh legal risks around data protection, confidentiality, privacy and workplace harassment.

  • Woman lawfully dismissed after working remotely from France

    Date:
    20 August 2026

    A woman has lost her claim for unfair dismissal and breach of contract to an employment tribunal after she was sacked for working remotely from France.

  • Supreme Court issues landmark ruling on part-time worker protections

    Date:
    13 August 2026

    The UK Supreme Court has ruled that part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, and not the sole cause. The landmark ruling could have far-reaching implications for the application of legal protections for part-time workers, according to lawyers.

  • Treasury 'materially contributed' to suicide of employee Chloe Moffat

    Date:
    11 August 2026

    HM Treasury 'materially contributed' to the suicide of its employee Chloe Moffat when she took her own life following an anonymous complaint at work. In announcing her conclusion of an inquest into Moffat's death at Surrey Coroners' Court, assistant coroner Anna Crawford found that the Treasury did not follow its disciplinary procedure in informing Moffat that the outcome of the allegation, if true, would be a written warning and not dismissal.

  • Woman awarded £20k for hotel's indirect sex discrimination

    Date:
    6 August 2026

    A receptionist and mother has been awarded £20,500 for her case of sex discrimination against a Northern Ireland hotel.

  • Acas seeks views on new disciplinary and grievance code

    Date:
    31 July 2026

    Acas has launched a consultation into its code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures. The conciliation service hopes that an updated code will help employers handle disputes at work in a fairer and more transparent way.

  • HMRC trainee awarded £155k after staff 'colluded' against him

    Date:
    29 July 2026

    A trainee investigator for HM Revenue and Customs has been awarded £155,000 for victimisation, failure to make reasonable adjustments and disability-related harassment.

  • Revoking job offer after cancer diagnosis was discrimination

    Date:
    22 July 2026

    A care worker whose job offer was revoked after revealing she had breast cancer has won £17,000 in a disability discrimination claim.

  • Consultation launched on equal pay reform

    Date:
    15 July 2026

    The government has launched a 15-week consultation to gather views on its next steps around equal pay reform. In particular, the Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO) has said it is seeking views on the Government's approach to make the right to equal pay more effective for ethnic minority and disabled people.

  • NMC drops case against nurse in pronouns dispute

    Date:
    7 July 2026

    The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has dropped its case against Jennifer Melle, the nurse suspended for talking to the media about how her NHS trust treated her after she misgendered a trans patient. Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust confidentially settled its high-profile tribunal case with Melle in April, just before an employment tribunal case was to be heard.

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