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- Date:
- 30 July 2025
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Join employment law specialist Darren Newman as he looks at employers' legal obligations and discusses specific scenarios where probationary periods commonly go wrong. Darren also looks at what employers can do now to prepare for the changes promised in the Employment Rights Bill.
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- Date:
- 30 July 2025
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Shantha David, head of legal services at UNISON, joins the podcast to talk about the impact of the Employment Rights Bill on trade union rights, fire and rehire practices and more.
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- Date:
- 28 July 2025
- Type:
- News
The TUC has today (Monday) told Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers in the House of Lords to 'stop trying to block' stronger rights for millions of workers.
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- Date:
- 18 July 2025
- Type:
- News
The House of Lords has voted for an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill that would replace day-one unfair dismissal rights with a six-month qualifying period.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated with a reference to Hendy Group Ltd v Kennedy, which addressed the issue of suitable alternative employment and unfair dismissal.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide illustrates when a contract of employment can be terminated by mutual consent, whereby the employer and employee come to a mutual agreement to end the employment relationship or frustrated, whereby an unforeseen event - typically the employee's prolonged ill health, the employee's death, or a lengthy imprisonment - disrupts the performance of the contract of employment.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide describes the potentially fair reason for dismissal due to a contravention of a statutory duty or restriction (sometimes referred to as a "statutory bar" dismissal). The dismissal of an employee may be fair if they are unable to continue working without contravening a duty or restriction (either on their part or that of their employer) imposed by legislation (such as a driving disqualification for an employee whose duties involve driving).
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- Date:
- 28 May 2025
- Type:
- News
An IT director who insisted on working from home for an important meeting was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has ruled.
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- Date:
- 27 May 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Constructive dismissal claims are commonly misunderstood and misrepresented, as typified by the headlines attracted by two recent employment tribunal judgments. Stephen Simpson indulges in a little mythbusting.
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- Date:
- 23 May 2025
- Type:
- News
A worker was subject to disability discrimination after his manager repeatedly sighed and made 'exaggerated exhales', an employment tribunal has found.