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Exit payments (or severance payments) in the public sector have been the subject of much media scrutiny in recent months. As employment lawyers acting for...

The month of September has given us a couple of surprising EAT decisions and both are in favour of employees! The first one considers whether...

In Dronsfield v University of Reading the EAT looks at the involvement and influence of third parties such as Human Resources in disciplinary procedures. Mr...

The Office for National Statistics confirms that the number of working days lost due to strike action in 2015 was 170,000 compared with 788,000 in...

Two recent reports show how real the difficulties remain for disabled employees in the workplace. Citizens Advice has published research Working with a health condition...

With the increasing use of “self-employed” roles in today’s “gig economy”[1], there are more and more cases coming to Tribunal concerning employment status and basic...

Where an employer seeks to make redundancies, it’s seen as good practice for the employer to offer voluntary redundancies. It also appeals to an employer...