Employment and Discrimination

From January 2024 the Working Time Regulations 1998 (the regulations) were amended to contain specific rules for two types of workers —…

The social care sector is notorious for low pay and poor working conditions, causing difficulty in staff recruitment and retention. In…

Wages problems for the generalist adviser

This a revised article initially written by Matthew Bradbury in February 2018 after the European Court of Justice ruling in King v Sash…

Christine Peacock examines the situations in which employers can and cannot recover training costs from workers.

In this article Lisa Crivello looks at the protections given to employees working on fixed term contracts and discusses how their rights…

In this long form article, Lisa Crivello explores the implications of the change in the law regarding mandatory vaccines in care homes.

In this article Christine Peacock looks at the law on collective redundancy situations and what employees can do if an employer gets it…

This article accompanies the collective redundancy article by Christine Peacock

A guide to deciphering whether a zero-hour worker is entitled to redundancy pay.

An employee’s guide to safeguarding rules

A long form article examining the fairness in conduct dismissals.

A long-form article on how employment law has changed since Adviser magazine was launched in 1986.

A case law update on the Court of Appeal’s decision in Brazel v The Harpur Trust

A long form article to help advisers identify whether discrimination at work is unlawful

A how to guide to a client’s right to notice pay if they are dismissed or resign when they are off sick

A how to guide on why every adviser should be giving discrimination advice and how our discrimination toolkits can help them