This month we saw Indian beauty services company, Yes Madam, in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The company asked staff to complete a workplace stress survey—only to later announce that anyone reporting high stress would be dismissed immediately. Naturally, the announcement sparked outrage, ridicule, and viral infamy on LinkedIn, with users sarcastically asking [...]
This month, we saw a case go to the Employment Appeal Tribunal for sex-based harassment. The argument was that calling a man 'bald' amounted to harassment on the grounds of sex, as men are statistically more likely than women to suffer from baldness and ridiculing them for this trait amounted to a form of harassment. [...]
In a light-hearted case, an Employment Tribunal ruled on a claim involving an employee who argued she was discriminated against for not receiving a leaving card. In Conaghan v IAG GBS Ltd (British Airways), the claimant alleged that her employer failed to acknowledge her with a leaving card when she left the company in 2021. The [...]
A recent article this month on Fortune has highlighted the rise in young men classified as NEET—not in Education, Employment, or Training—reports serious questions about the future of both the UK economy and an entire generation of workers. The question ultimately is what will the Labour government do to draw young men back into [...]
I think we all know who the true downtrodden are in this country. When a certain group suggested adding a new protected characteristic to the Equality Act, we all instinctively knew who they were referring to. That's right, the underclass we were all expecting—fox hunters! This month saw "Hunting Kind"—a pro-fox hunting group—compare their plight [...]
Happy Friday everyone and thank you for joining us for our monthly newsletter. For those that missed last month's newsletter you can find that here. This month, we are looking at a Tribunal claim for a woman who was dismissed from her position at a rape crisis centre for her gender critical views, the [...]
Cemetery Workers Play Matchmaker for Lonely Swan To end your week with a bit of positivity, we have a heartwarming story making headlines of the lonely-widowed Swan, Blossom, finding another chance of love after staff at the cemetery created her a dating profile. Previously, Blossom lived with her partner Bud for 5 years on the edge [...]
Personality quizzes have been a thing for a while now and is a method used to evaluate someone’s personality which is usually grouped into: listener, mediator, thinker, defender, campaigner, or energizer. A new Paradox.ai personality test has gone viral recently because of its long and bizarre scenarios it interactively places job candidates in as a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Citibank was taken to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal after sacking an employee for gross misconduct. The claimant was a financial analyst specialising in financial crime. He’d submitted expenses for a business trip claiming he had eaten two sandwiches, two pasta dishes and drank two coffees. When queried whether he had consumed this all [...]
A tv show involving creative prankster, Oobah Butler, showed him taking on Amazon by going undercover at one of their warehouses, creating a fake drink that reached one of their best sellers and getting his two-year-old niece to order age verified products using Alexa. Whilst undercover, he discovered poor working conditions that included a lack [...]
This month we saw Pret-a-Manger fined £800,000 after leaving a cafe worker locked in their walk-in freezer! On 29 July, a member of staff became trapped in a commercial freezer which had a running temperature of 18 degrees below zero, while only dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. After moving around trying to keep warm [...]
In this month's lighter side of the news we look at a recent claim wherein a male nurse, Mr Marsh, won a sex discrimination claim against the NHS. Being the only male within his health visitor team, he was routinely the butt of jokes by the female staff, including from his boss Ms Sanchez! When [...]
