Government moves forward with changes to holiday pay, working time and TUPE By Joanne Bell, Louise Bloomfield, Nick Chronias On 8 November the Department for Business and Trade published its response to the consultation on…
Holiday pay – all change again.. By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias In a significant case for employers, the Supreme Court has held this morning that underpayments of…
Repeated extensions to termination date and failure to allow second appeal did not make dismissal unfair By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employee was not unfairly dismissed when his…
Is an employment contract varied or terminated due to imposition of new terms? - Health By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias The EAT has considered whether an employee's contract of employment had been terminated by the…
Is an employment contract varied or terminated due to imposition of new terms? By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias The EAT has considered whether an employee's contract of employment had been terminated by the…
Email and comments against gender critical beliefs were harassment contrary to the Equality Act By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias An employment tribunal has upheld a claim for harassment related to an employee's gender critical…
High Court quashes regulations allowing striking workers to be replaced by agency workers By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias The High Court has upheld a judicial review challenge brought by thirteen trade unions to the…
ACAS consults on updated code of practice on flexible working By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias ACAS is updating its statutory Code of practice on handling requests for flexible working and is…
New presidential guidance on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias The President of the Employment tribunals (England and Wales) has issued new Presidential Guidance…
Progress on Private Members' Bills By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias Private Members' Bills affecting employers continue to make their way through Parliament…
Employment Matters - August 2023 (HEALTH) By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias In this alert, we cover a case where the employer unilaterally changed terms of employment - and…
Employment Matters - August 2023 By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias In this alert, we cover a case where the employer unilaterally changed terms of employment - and…
Consultation on proposed changes to working time laws, TUPE and non-compete clauses By Ceri Fuller, Nick Chronias The Government has now set out some of its plans for its post Brexit reform of employment law…
Government announces intention to change the working time regulations, TUPE and non-compete clauses By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias On 10 May the Government published a policy paper “Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy’ setting…
Government consultation on calculating holiday entitlement for part year workers - Public sector By Nick Chronias, Udara Ranasinghe The Government have issued a consultation paper to address the issues that have arisen out of the…
Industrial action: Repeal of laws preventing employers from hiring temporary workers during strike action now in force By Nick Chronias On 15 July we reported that the Government had laid legislation before parliament to enable…
COVID-19: Updated Government guidance: Reducing the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, in the workplace C+FS By Ceri Fuller, Nick Chronias, Rhian Greaves, Stefan Desbordes On 1 April 2022 the Government released its promised, updated guidance for employers: Reducing…
Regulations requiring health and social care workers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to be revoked from 15 March By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias On 1 February we reported that the Secretary of State for Health had announced that the requirement…
Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley: Supreme court judgment By Nick Chronias As we reported , in 2019 the Court of Appeal considered section 145B of the Trade Union Labour…
Employment Matters - September 2021 - Public Health By Hilary Larter, Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events…
Government launch consultation on making COVID-19 and flu vaccination mandatory in the health and wider social care sector By Hilary Larter, Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller On 9 September, the Government opened a six week public consultation on making vaccination a…
Employment Matters - September 2021 - Independent Health By Hilary Larter, Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events…
Brexit Workforce Implications: Webinar By Nick Chronias The Brexit Agreement has significant implications for many employers…
COVID-19 Vaccine: Can employers require employees to be vaccinated? - Health and Social Care By Joanne Bell, Udara Ranasinghe, Nick Chronias Health and social care workers are likely to welcome being vaccinated against COVID-19 given the…
Collective redundancies – ECJ decision on reference period By Nick Chronias, Joanne Bell The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed in UQ v Marclean Technologies SLU that in…
COVID-19: Impact of school closures and other recent developments employers need to know about (Health) By Joanne Bell, Udara Ranasinghe, Nick Chronias Following on from the Prime Minister’s announcement that schools will close for the majority of…
COVID-19: Briefing Bulletin - Health By Nick Chronias, Corinne Slingo, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson DAC Beachcroft is receiving an increasing number of client requests on Covid-19 issues…
Employment Matters - June 2019 By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events…
Unfair Dismissal: Dismissal of a Christian employee for proselytising was not unfair By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter An NHS Trust did not unfairly dismiss a Christian nurse who had continued to proselytise to…
Working Time: The ECJ holds that employers must have a system for measuring daily working time of all workers By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter The European Court of Justice has held that member states must require employers to set up a system…
Disability Discrimination: Blocking of internal posting for disabled employee was not disability discrimination By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter An employee with multiple disabilities did not suffer disability discrimination when an overseas…
Disability Discrimination: Knowledge of disability By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter The dismissal of an employee may have been discriminatory even though the employer only found out…
Unfair Dismissal: Employer's failure to follow its own informal disciplinary procedure resulted in constructive dismissal By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter An employee of an NHS Trust who resigned in response to the issuing of an informal “Improvement…
Court of Appeal confirms voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay under Agenda for Change (for NHS employers) By Nick Chronias, Joanne Bell The Court of Appeal has upheld the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision in Flowers v East of…
Court of Appeal confirms regular voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias The Court of Appeal has upheld the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision in Flowers v East of…
NHS Publishes Interim NHS People Plan By Katy Horner, Nick Chronias The Interim Plan outlines how the NHS needs to recruit, retain and develop staff to meet rapidly…
A workplace that reflects your community - Employment Webinar By Nick Chronias Research suggests that high performing workforces are diverse workforces…
