Employment status – An Employee, Freelancer or Worker?
There are three different types of working individuals but deciding someone's employment status can be complicated as there is no single legal definition. Our advice is updated for 2011. Here…
Equal Opportunties and Discrimination (Equality Act 2010)
The new Equality Act came into force on 1st October 2010 and replaces all previous equality legislation. The Equality Act covers the same groups that are protected by existing equality…
Staff Misconduct in the workplace – personality conflicts, ‘sickies’, drugs, alcohol and third-party requests to dismiss
Staff misconduct in the workplace can be a tricky problem to handle. Depending on the type of misconduct, it could result in losing staff, unhappy staff or lower team morale…
Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting and Equal Pay
Also covered here is: Executive pay gap reporting, Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting, Equal Pay and Pay Secrecy. Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting: The 2015 Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act…
Should employers fear the office Christmas party? Misconduct outside the workplace
Your office Christmas Party is, hopefully, normally pretty lively and good fun. However, Employers can face problems if their staff ‘misbehave’. Without being too much of a Grinch there are…
Employment tribunals – your rights
With a 56% rise in Tribunal claims in 2010, Employment Tribunals (ET’s) have been in the news a lot lately! Here we give you the information you need to know…
Can disciplinary or grievance meetings be audio or video recorded?
There could be various reasons an Employer or an employee, may wish to audio or video-record important work meetings/hearings, but there are some factors to consider which we explore here.…
The right to request time off for training or study
There exists a right to request time off for training or study, for employees in England, Wales and Scotland, who work for employers who have 250+ employees. Information about this…
Finding details of Employment Tribunal cases
Updated 2025. Employment Tribunal cases and their judgments, in the past, were rarely made freely available to the public, however The Ministry of Justice launched an online database in February…