Every April new employment law legislation comes into effect which all employers must comply with. This year sees some significant changes to many areas of HR including holiday pay calculation, harassment at work and flexible working requests. If you would be interested in learning more about these changes and what your company needs to do [...]
Welcome back to another case of the week. Last week our newsletter covered a professor who suffered victimisation, harassment and direct discrimination for expressing her views at a Women’s Place UK talk, mass redundancy at Port Talbot and DPD learning that it’s not just disgruntled employees that can be disloyal when its own AI chatbot stated [...]
Happy January all and welcome back to our monthly newsletter. We hope you are all recovering from the January blues as we get closer towards February. This month, we have a look into a recent successful claim of unfair dismissal due to the Claimant's gender critical views, the recently announced closure of a steelworks leading [...]
This month saw another claim in the rising number of unfair dismissal cases determined in favour of gender critical employees. Professor Jo Pheonix, a lesbian who set up the Gender Critical Research Network at the university was found to have suffered victimisation, harassment, and direct discrimination by the Employment Tribunal this month. A colleague of [...]
A forecast by the Department for Work and Pensions has estimated that an additional two million people will claim disability benefit due to their mental health this year compared to 2023. The forecast comes with an estimate that over £10 billion will need to be spent to keep up with the increasing demand by 2028. [...]
All things new in tech come with their upsides and downsides. Artificial intelligence, the new buzzword to be fitted to every car, gadget, and coffee mug in the not too distant future has been in the news this month for less than ideal reasons. Ashley Beauchamp experienced an interesting interaction with DPD, the parcel delivery [...]
Hello again and welcome back to our case of the week. Last week we looked at a case that made the national news because of an offensive word being used during a racism awareness training session that resulted in dismissal. Those that missed it can find it here. This week we're looking at a disability [...]
We have some great feedback from one of Liam's clients to share this week: M G said: “The advice and service I received from PJH Law was excellent. I was treated with dignity and respect and any questions always received a timely response.”
Last week, we looked at an agent who was awarded over £1.5million for a whistleblower claim! For those of you that missed last week’s update, you can find it here. This week we look at a case that made the national news which asks the question; is saying the ‘N’- word during a racism awareness training [...]
Hello again and Happy New Year to you all; we hope you had a wonderful break. Welcome back to our case of the week and our first for 2024! We are starting off the year with a case that looks at contractual clauses limiting the financial liability of the employer on termination of employment. For [...]
Happy holidays everyone and welcome back to our final newsletter for 2023! We hope you are all keeping warm over the holiday period and looking forward to spending some time with family (or not, if you're really lucky!). This week we're taking a short look at the changes to the Equality Act, discriminatory hiring practices, [...]
Moving into the new year we will have some amendments to the Equality Act 2010. The first of these will come into force on 1 Jan (Happy New Year, by the way), which will seek to retain existing EU law in line with the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023. The primary areas [...]
On 13 December a Parliamentary Committee was held on 'champions of female representation in financial services to give evidence on Sexism in the City', which saw Amanda Blanc, Aviva's CEO, give statements to the committee tasked with identifying gender pay gaps and what progress needs to be made in the Financial Services industry. In a [...]
As I am sure you will all of heard about, or possibly watched live, a BBC presenter caught holding up her middle finger to the camera earlier this month. The moment was reported widely as many BBC viewers were greeted to the news by Maryam Moshiri flipping them the bird right before the news started. In the [...]
