Significant employment law changes are anticipated in 2017. Businesses will still be tackling issues such as who are workers or self-employed, how holiday pay should be calculated, and how to grapple with the ongoing uncertainty from Brexit. Gender pay gap...
The Court of Protection has ruled that medical teams should stop providing life-support treatment to a man who suffered severe brain injuries in a road crash last year. Paul Briggs, a constable with Merseyside Police, had been riding a motorcycle on his way...
Following a long-running consultation, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced agreed reforms to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) – which are expected to take effect from March 2017. When the consultation was...
While a “milestone” for gender equality, research shows that just five per cent of new fathers and eight per cent of new mothers have opted to take shared parental leave (SPL) since it was introduced in April 2015. The research, conducted by...
A Supreme Court judgment on a landmark Wills dispute is expected in the new year. The latest hearing in the protracted legal battle, which stretches back more than a decade, took place earlier this week. A group of animal charities are fighting a previous...
Rail passengers are facing travel chaos as striking train drivers have brought the Southern network to a halt. Passengers have suffered months of disruption as a result of the dispute between Aslef, the RMT and Southern, which is about whose job it should be...
A British father who wanted to stop his former partner taking their children to live in an American state has lost a Family Court fight. The mother, a Mormon woman, had asked the judge to allow her to move their six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter...
The final version of the Gender Pay Gap Regulations 2017 has been published and they set out how employers should calculate and report the gender pay gap within organisations with 250 or more employees from April 2017. The Regulations require affected...
A beauty therapist who was dismissed from her job at a health club has been awarded an employment Tribunal payout of more than £18,000. Emma Holt was unfairly dismissed after child care needs stopped her working weekends, a court heard. The Tribunal...
A leading renewable energy producer has submitted “alternative” planning applications to set up green gas mills on two proposed UK fracking sites. Ecotricity says that its ‘green gas mills’ – which have the capability to turn...
Is an employer liable for injuries caused by an employee after a work Christmas party has ended? No, held the High Court in Bellman v Northampton Recruitment . Following a work Christmas Party, Mr Bellman (an employee), Mr Major (a company...
The number of cohabiting couples in the UK has doubled over the last 20 years, and has been the fastest-growing family type over the same period, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Figures from the ONS reveal that there are...
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner is to be taken to an Employment Tribunal by his one-time deputy. Yvonne Mosquito had been suspended back in March after she paid a visit to relatives of a teenage murder victim; Kenichi Phillips, aged 18, had...
Chancellor Philip Hammond has left Britain’s business world “disappointed” by his failure to address the future of UK energy policy during his Autumn Statement on 23 November, according to reports. As many as 8,000 British businesses from...
New research has suggested that significant numbers of elderly people are receiving substantial care bills “out of the blue”. Citizens Advice is concerned that a sizeable proportion of the 300,000 pensioners living in a care homes across England...