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- Employment Law
What Is The Law Relating To Casual Workers?
During an economic downturn, many employers find it difficult to justify hiring employees to cover busy times but still require extra hands during ...
- Employment Law
Can You Vary An Employment Contract?
In challenging economic times employers often consider changing their employment contracts as an alternative to making redundancies. Decreasing ...
- Employment Law
Have P&O Ferries Acted Lawfully?
Have P&O Ferries Acted Lawfully? The abrupt sacking of 800 P&O Ferries’ employees last week has been met with widespread condemnation from ...
- Employment Law
Equal Pay
It has been a very busy few months in the Employment law world with yet another ground-breaking Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court have ruled ...
- Employment Law
Sleep-in Time – What are you entitled to?
On Friday 19 March 2021, the Supreme Court delivered its judgement in Tomlinson-Blake v Royal Mencap Society. It was a long-awaited decision, ...
- Employment Law
Hot off the press: Uber and employment status
A long running legal battle has finally come to an end today in the case of Uber BV and others v Aslam and others. In this landmark case, the UK’s ...
- Uncategorised
The vaccine dilemma…a case of be injected or be dismissed..?
As with everything related to coronavirus, there is a lot that remains unknown. So, what are the potential repercussions for an employee who refuses ...
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Harassment
We approach that time of the year when ordinarily, staff would let their hair down at their annual Christmas party. Whilst the usual highlight of the ...
- Employment Law
What is Unfair Dismissal?
In a recent case a teacher at Weatherby Prep School, of whom Prince William and Prince Harry’s are former students, won £170,000 for unfair ...
- Criminal Law
What to Do If You Are Arrested for Fraud
On 21st September 2024, Bristol Crown Court convicted a father and two sons accused of swindling the National Trust out of £1 million. Roger Bryant, ...