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Unfair dismissal qualifying period and tribunal fees
Jayn Bond, Head of Human Resources at Workplace Law, discusses the recent announcement that the qualification period for the right to claim unfair dismissal will be extended from to one to two year... | audio | 5 Oct 2011 2:17PM

International Women's Day: equality for all?
On International Women's Day, Ali Moran, HR Consultant at Workplace Law, speaks to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about whether women have yet achieved equality in the workplace. | audio | 8 Mar 2011 4:44PM

Inclusion: it's not about designing for disabled people!
Professor Keith Bright - an expert in access issues - discusses the impending Equality Bill, its potential impact on access issues, and the need for a new attitude towards design that includes ever... | audio | 11 Jul 2008 4:57PM

Workplace violence: prevention and cure
Sue Frith, Deputy Head of the NHS Security Management Service, talks to Workplace Law Network's Douglas Kitson about how the NHS is working to manage violence against staff. | audio | 6 Jun 2008 12:54PM

Blog post

Don’t be afraid of the dark
In the summer of 2010, having been with Workplace Law nearly a year, I was asked a question by one of our directors whilst chatting with other staff on a business development trip to the beautiful ... | blog post | 26 Apr 2012 12:24PM

The demise of Remploy
The coalition government has recently made the decision to shut a number of Remploy sites this year and this has sparked a raft of demos and rallies against the decision in an effort to get the gov... | blog post | 26 Apr 2012 12:03PM

Positively unfair: workplace discrimination in South Africa
Following the end of the Apartheid Government in 1994, amid all the celebration, South Africa was faced with some tough choices. One of the biggest challenges was how to achieve a more representati... | blog post | 23 Apr 2012 3:14PM

Changing attitudes: getting women on board
A year ago today, Lord Mervyn Davies published a report entitled ‘Women on boards’, after being commissioned by the Coalition Government to undertake a review of the UK’s corporat... | blog post | 24 Feb 2012 4:12PM

Briefing

Breastfeeding and the workplace
Returning to work can be a major barrier to breastfeeding; indeed, work is one of the most common reason mothers with babies over six weeks old stop breastfeeding. However, the Department of Health... | briefing | 18 Oct 2007 1:41PM

Gender equality in the workplace
A generation ago, the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay Act made great advances towards achieving gender equality in the workplace. However, today the equal treatment of women at work is sti... | briefing | 20 Nov 2011 3:38PM

Religious belief in the workplace
What is a religious belief? The term religion is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘belief in existence of a superhuman controlling power, usually expressed in worship.’ It’s a ... | briefing | 23 Nov 2007 10:10AM

Equal opportunities policies
An equal opportunities policy is a mission statement about an employer’s treatment of job applicants and staff. The policy should not only deal with race but should also indicate that there w... | briefing | 30 Nov 2007 1:28PM

Accessible workplaces
There is a legal requirement for the provision of accessible workplaces to enable disabled people to participate fully in employment. Sixteen years after the introduction of legislation to ensure e... | briefing | 18 Dec 2007 4:47PM

Case

Tribunal should adjourn for sick claimant
In a recent decision the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has decided that an Employment Tribunal should have adjourned a hearing for a second time when the claimant was ill.  The claimant in... | case | 20 Jan 2012 9:40AM

The Supreme Court to consider compulsory retirement case
The Supreme Court hearing of the Seldon case starts today, the outcome of which will afford some guidance regarding the interpretation of the abolition of the Default Retirement Age (DRA), where it... | case | 17 Jan 2012 1:07PM

NHS Trust fined £933,000 for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal
Central Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is to pay £933,000 in compensation for the racial discrimination and unfair dismissal of a former NHS divisional director. Elliot Browne&rs... | case | 10 Jan 2012 8:28AM

Doctor awarded record £4.5 million compensation
A doctor who was dismissed from her job as an obstetrician at Pontefract General Infirmary has been awarded a record £4.5 million in compensation for unfair dismissal and race and sex di... | case | 19 Dec 2011 9:03AM

Wearing a poppy not a protected belief
It was recently decided at a pre-hearing review that an employee’s belief that a poppy should be worn as a mark of respect from All Souls Day until Remembrance Sunday was not a philosophical ... | case | 12 Dec 2011 9:22AM

Case review

Woodcock v. Cumbria Primary Care Trust
Mr Woodcock's role as Chief Executive of North Cumbria Primary Care Trust became redundant as a result of an NHS reorganisation.  He remained employed for some months but no alternative role w... | case review | 23 Mar 2012 10:07AM

Fulcrum Pharma (Europe) Ltd v. Bonassera and another
The HR team at Fulcrum Pharma (FP) was made up of just two individuals; Mrs Bonassera (the HR manager) and an HR executive who assisted her. FP made the decision that it no longer required an HR ma... | case review | 22 Oct 2010 2:56PM

Seldon v. Clarkson, Wright and Jakes
The outcome of the Supreme Court hearing of the Seldon case, which was held on 17 January 2012, will afford some guidance regarding the interpretation of the abolition of the Default Retirement Age... | case review | 17 Jan 2012 3:57PM

Azmi v. Kirklees Metropolitan Council (2007)
Mrs Azmi was employed by Headfield Church of England (Controlled) Junior School, West Yorkshire, as a bilingual teaching assistant. Because of her religion, Azmi asked that she wear a full naqib (... | case review | 30 Mar 2007 11:30AM

Sharon Coleman v. Attridge Law (2008)
Sharon Coleman was accused by her workplace – Attridge Law – of using her disabled child as a means of manipulating requests for working time and was dismissed. Coleman claimed unfair d... | case review | 17 Jul 2008 3:23PM

Ebulletin

A Major Boost to Workers’ Rights
[subject - Members E-bulletin 142, 27 July 2004] 27 July 2004 (c) Workplace Law Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 141 of your weekl... | ebulletin | 27 Jul 2004 4:57PM

Blair to Announce Inquiry into ‘Sexism in the City’
[subject - Members E-bulletin 141, 20 July 2004] 20 July 2004 (c) Workplace Law Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 141 of your weekl... | ebulletin | 20 Jul 2004 4:55PM

Workplace Law on the Move!
[subject - Members E-bulletin 138, 30 June 2004] 30 June 2004 (c) Workplace Law Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 138 of your weekl... | ebulletin | 30 Jun 2004 4:48PM

Promoting Equality in the Workplace
[subject - Members E-bulletin 137, 21 June 2004] 21 June 2004 (c) Workplace Law Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 137 of your weekl... | ebulletin | 21 Jun 2004 4:47PM

Disability Discrimination Guidance Released
[subject - Members E-bulletin 133, 18 May 2004] 18 May 2004 (c) Workplace Law Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 133 of your weekly ... | ebulletin | 18 May 2004 4:40PM

Factsheet

Childcare provisions
 All three- and four-year-olds are entitled to 12.5 hours’ free early education per week in nurseries, playgroups, pre-schools, children’s centres or at their childminders, for... | Factsheet | 17 Sep 2007 6:20AM

Bullying and harassment
The Government has estimated that employers’ failure to tackle the root cause of bullying in the workplace costs the UK economy £13.75bn a year. According to HSE reports... | Factsheet | 14 Sep 2007 4:20PM

Discrimination
Age discrimination occurs across the age range, although it is most common at the younger and older age ranges, particularly under 25 and over 50. In a recent CIPD survey 59% o... | Factsheet | 17 Oct 2007 5:37PM

HIV and AIDS
There are approximately 80,000 adults in the UK living with HIV. It is not known what proportion of those will progress to AIDS and the incubation period between infection and onset of AIDS ... | Factsheet | 17 Sep 2007 12:20PM

Disability legislation
It is estimated that disabled people spend around £40bn a year on goods and services.There are over two million disabled people in employment in the UK.Although 7... | Factsheet |

Guide

Guide to Flexible Working 2008
Research published in March 2007 estimated that the British economy was losing £2.5 billion per year (equating to £1,500 per worker) as a result of poor productivity arising from employ... | Guide | 22 Aug 2007 9:49AM

Magazine issue

Face facts: how much do you really know about disability legislation?
The very first issue of Workplace Law Magazine coincides with the 1 October 2004 deadline for compliance with Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA). The requirements of Part III... | Magazine issue | 1 Oct 2004 11:29AM

Religious beliefs: should employers cater for all faiths?
Is it the employer's responsibility to cater for all employees' faiths in the workplace? And if the answer is yes, then what, exactly, constitutes a religious belief? Unfortunately, religion isn't... | Magazine issue | 1 May 2005 3:14PM

Perk of the job? Managing the risks faced by loneworkers
According to the RAC Foundation, four million people now work from home or act as ‘mobile workers’ — meaning there are an increasing number of people working alone. And there are ... | Magazine issue | 5 Jun 2008 10:54AM

Identity charade
When recruiting, should you pick the person who has the right skills and experience for the job, or concentrate on getting the right ‘mix’ of ‘types’ of employee – the... | Magazine issue | 3 Sep 2008 9:53AM

Evacuation versus invacuation
Whenever we address issues around fire and disability, and what happens when the two things come together, I am reminded of a scene in the BBC2 television series, The Office. In the scene an overze... | Magazine issue | 10 Jul 2008 5:13PM

Network news

Countdown to the UK's biggest Compliance event for FM
There are now just seven weeks to go until the UK's biggest compliance event for facilities managers – Workplace Law's 12th Annual Facilities Management Legal Update Conference and Dinner &... | network news | 15 Feb 2011 4:54PM

Fire safety and disability guidance launched
Workplace Law’s Fire and Disability 2008: Special Report was launched today. The report, which is available as a PDF download, aims to provide responsible persons with all the information t... | network news | 9 Aug 2007 12:00AM

Racial and religious discrimination in the workplace
 Racial and Religious Discrimination 2007 White Paper New guidance has been produced by Workplace Law Network to help employers... | network news | 4 May 2007 12:00AM

Workplace Law launches new CIPD professional training courses
Workplace Law Training has launched two new CIPD courses for HR and Personnel professionals. These new qualifications add to Workplace Law’s portfolio of accredited training courses and offer... | network news | 18 Jan 2007 12:00AM

Dates announced for final Fire Safety Conference of 2005
Following the huge demand, for the Fire Safety Conference 2005, Workplace Law Training will be running one final conference this year on 1 December 2005. The Fire Safety Conference 2005 looks in d... | network news | 8 Nov 2005 12:00AM

News

Young people facing barriers to work
A report published today (23 May 2012) by The Work Foundation and Private Equity Foundation reveals that the past decade has seen a major rise in young people aged 16–24 who are either unable... | news | 23 May 2012 1:36PM

Awareness week to tackle taboo of mental ill health at work
ACAS is highlighting the fact that one in six employees suffers mental health problems at work to mark National Mental Health Awareness Week 2012, run by UK charity, the Mental Health Foundation, w... | news | 21 May 2012 11:07AM

Equal pay claim could cost Network Rail millions
Network Rail is facing an equal pay claim, which if successful could cost them millions, after it was revealed that female staff earn on average £4,500 less than men doing similar jobs. The ... | news | 18 May 2012 1:06PM

Equality Act reform could penalise mental health sufferers
The mental health charity Mind has warned that the Government's proposals to amend equality legislation as a result of the red tape challenge could put the rights of people with mental health probl... | news | 17 May 2012 8:58AM

Fireman claims sexual discrimination over hair cut
A fireman is suing his employers for sexual discrimination after being told to 'get a proper haircut', reports the Teeside Gazette. Ian Holdsworth claims he was humiliated by being told he was goin... | news | 16 May 2012 10:02AM

News analysis

Self-employed workers to gain additional rights
The EU Directive on equal treatment between self-employed workers (the Directive) came into force on 5 August 2010.  As a result of the Directive, self-employed workers and their assisting par... | news analysis | 11 May 2012 9:19AM

The 'modern workplace': more flexibility for employees, more headaches for employers?
The Government has today launched a consultation on proposals that it says will make ‘employment practices in the UK more flexible and family friendly’. However, as many employers are a... | news analysis | 16 May 2011 5:55PM

Equal pay for the modern workplace
In May 2011, the Coalition Government commenced a Consultation on Modern Workplaces, looking at proposals to change current UK employment law with a view to encourage a more fair and flexible appro... | news analysis | 13 Jun 2011 10:50AM

Public sector equality duty: what, when and how
The new public sector equality duty contained in the Equality Act 2010 came into force on 5 April 2011. It imposes some new requirements on public bodies and failure to comply with it could result ... | news analysis | 28 Jun 2011 5:38PM

Women in the Boardroom
One issue highlighted by the economic crisis has been the significant under-representation of women in the boardrooms of the UK’s publicly quoted companies.  While this is an unacceptabl... | news analysis | 31 Aug 2011 9:43AM

Official guidance

Stress and mental health at work
In this factsheet:  What is work-related stress? The legal position Dealing with stress at work Dealing with mental health in the workplace CIPD viewpoint Useful contacts References ... | official guidance | 1 Aug 2011 3:48PM

Sex discrimination, sexual orientation, gender reassignment and employment
In this factsheet: What is sex, sexual orientation or gender reassignment discrimination? The legal position Good employment practices CIPD viewpoint Useful contacts References Further rea... | official guidance | 1 Dec 2011 3:41PM

Equality Act 2010
In this factsheet:  Background to the Equality Act 2010. What does the Equality Act 2010 do? Key concepts. Significant changes from previous discrimination law. Equality and Human Right... | official guidance | 1 Oct 2010 10:51AM

Default retirement age
In this factsheet: The default retirement age. Removal of the default retirement age. Justifying a retirement age when the DRA is removed. Reviewing the management of older employees. Action... | official guidance | 1 Oct 2011 10:23AM

Inclusive service provision. Requirements for identifying and responding to consumer vulnerability.
In May 2011, a major bank was fined £17m for mis-selling financial products to vulnerable consumers, and for then not handling their complaints fairly. You're probably keen to avoid mak... | official guidance | 1 Nov 2010 11:21AM

Policy & Procedure

Age Equality and Retirement Policy and Management Guide v2.0
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006: ban age discrimination in terms of recruitment, promotion and training; ban unjustified retirement ages of below 65; and remove the current age limit... | Policy & Procedure |

Non-contractual Adoption Policy and Management Guide, v2.0
"Family friendly” provisions came into force on 6 April 2003 and by a series of Regulations introduced a number of new rights for parents, such as the right to request flexible working, ... | Policy & Procedure |

Equal Opportunities Policy and Management Guide, version 3.0
Equal Opportunities policies are becoming ever more important in today’s increasingly multicultural, multiracial society. The purpose of this policy is to set out the obligations on both the ... | Policy & Procedure |

Regulation

Asylum and Immigration Act 1996
Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 makes it a criminal offence to employ someone who is not entitled to live and work in the UK. Employers and individual managers can face fines of up... | Regulation | 24 Jul 1996 3:41PM

National Minimum Wage Act 1998
The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 came into force on 1 April 1999. It provides for a single national minimum wage with no variations by region, occupation or size of company. It covers all relevan... | Regulation | 16 Sep 1998 11:19AM

Human Rights Act 1998
The Human Rights Act 1998 adopted the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and came into UK law on 2 October 2000. Some of the rights and freedoms set out... | Regulation | 16 Sep 1998 11:29AM

Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000
The Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 came into force on 1 October 2002 and provide statutory protection for fixed-term employees. The Regulations stat... | Regulation | 16 Sep 2000 8:16PM

Employment Act 2002
The Employment Act 2002 came into force on 8 July 2002 and represented one of the most fundamental employment law reforms for many years. The Act:  made provision for statutory rights to pa... | Regulation | 16 Sep 2002 8:52PM

Special report

Occupational Health 2008: Making the business case - special report
Absence - what's the cost to your business? In June 2007 the Department for Work and Pensions announced that the UK loses 175 million working days each year to sickness-related absence, costing the... | Special report | 28 Nov 2007 1:33PM

Fire and Disability 2008: Special Report
Every workplace in the UK should know how to provide for the access and egress of all disabled people that may work or visit their premises. The Fire and Disability 2008: Special Report f... | Special report | 9 Aug 2007 10:53AM

Video - Documentary

Discipline and suspension
What does it feel like to be suspended? Jayn Bond interviews Jenna, HR Manager, about her own personal experience of being on a disciplinary suspension. Jenna talks about the emotional impact and ... | Video - Documentary | 11 May 2010 12:16PM

Dealing with disability
Jayn Bond interviews Mike Hare, Architect, who was the innocent victim in a car accident on his way home from work. Mike talks about his experience and the challenges he has faced since in order to... | Video - Documentary | 8 Jun 2010 10:30AM

Employment Tribunals in focus
This short film takes you through the Employment Tribunal process, inlcuding a look at a real claim and with valuable insights from Workplace Law's Head of Human Resources, Jayn Bond, who also sits... | Video - Documentary | 16 Jun 2011 11:06AM

Video - Legal update

HR and employment law legal update - Monday 5 March 2012
This HR and employment law update, hosted by Suzanne McMinn, HR Consultant at Workplace Law, looks at: The Red Tape Challenge; unfair dismissal; Tribunal reforms; Tribunal fees; statuto... | Video - Legal update | 5 Mar 2012 12:55PM

Video - News

Weekly news 16-22 May 2012
Welcome to this week's Workplace Law news which covers the publication of the Beecroft report, the rewriting of CDM regulations, a firefighter acquitted of manslaughter, the BIM to set a 'gold stan... | Video - News | 23 May 2012 9:24AM

Weekly news 25 April-1 May 2012
Welcome to this week's Workplace Law news which covers fire service managers facing prosecution over four fireman deaths, a union claiming workplace deaths are 'underestimated', the Supreme Court d... | Video - News | 1 May 2012 10:30AM

Weekly news 11-17 April 2012
Welcome to this week's Workplace Law news covering CDM regulations, the HSE's myth busters panel, the Agency Workers Regulations, the demands of employment regulations, the risk of flooding and W... | Video - News | 18 Apr 2012 10:06AM

Weekly news 4-10 April 2012
Welcome to this week's Workplace Law news which covers a HSE consultation on whether to scrap or amend 14 pieces of health and safety legislation, warnings that the Youth Contract may lead to discr... | Video - News | 11 Apr 2012 9:40AM

Weekly news special: April Common Commencement Date
This feature-length Workplace Law TV news features contributions from Suzanne McMinn, HR Consultant, and Renier Barnard, Health and Safety Consultant, on the changes coming into effect on 6 April... | Video - News | 3 Apr 2012 2:08PM

Video - Seminar

Unfair dismissal
Do you know what is considered ‘fair’ and ‘unfair’ when dismissing employees? Do you know what the five ‘fair reasons for dismissal’ are? Do you understand the d... | Video - Seminar | 26 Apr 2012 3:26PM

Discrimination: office banter
When should jokey banter be taken seriously?  Is HR being a 'party pooper' or trying to protect your business?  As an employer do you appreciate that you are running major risks if you ... | Video - Seminar | 27 Apr 2010 2:13PM

Maternity and paternity provisions
Are you up to date with the current maternity, paternity and adoption provisions? How about the changes that come into force in April 2011?  If not then this is the ideal seminar for you.&nbs... | Video - Seminar | 25 May 2010 9:51AM

The Equality Act
Are you ready for the changes that come into force in October this year with the new Equality Act? In this FREE online seminar Suzanne McMinn, HR Consultant at Workplace Law, aims to giv... | Video - Seminar | 7 Sep 2010 10:06AM

Agency Workers Regulations and recent Tribunal decisions on workplace banter
The Agency Workers Regulations came into force on 1 October 2011. Do you use Agency temps? Do they stay as long as 12 weeks? Have you considered what action you need to take?  When is joking ... | Video - Seminar | 10 Oct 2011 9:15AM

What the papers say

The John Lewis bottom slapper
For decades it has enjoyed a reputation as the respectable department store of choice for the middle classes. But John Lewis was yesterday revealed as the unlikely setting for a rumpus that coul... | what the papers say | 7 Feb 2011 5:04PM

Diane Abbott: I was not beneficiary of positive discrimination
Diane Abbott has denied being a beneficiary of positive discrimination after becoming the first member of an ethnic minority to formally stand for the Labour leadership. The Telegraph. Mor... | what the papers say | 9 Jun 2010 5:52PM

Sex life of fruit bat lands lecturer in hot water
An academic who was accused of sexual harassment after showing a female colleague a research paper on oral sex among fruit bats has been ordered to undergo a two-year 'monitoring and counselling'... | what the papers say | 18 May 2010 4:56PM

Disgraced expenses MP, Margaret Moran, faces race discrimination case from former employees
Margaret Moran, who claimed £22,500 on her parliamentary expenses for dry rot treatment at a house 100 miles from her constituency, faces allegations of race discrimination by three of her fo... | what the papers say | 18 Jan 2010 11:08AM

One armed dad loses unfair dismissal case
A MAN with one arm who took on supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has lost his fight for compensation. Warehouse worker Anthony Parker, who lost his arm in a motorcycle accident, was seeking a fiv... | what the papers say | 31 Oct 2008 10:39AM

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Equal pay claim could cost Network Rail millions
"The worst offenders are in the public sector..." I'm not sure what evidence there is to support this. Certainly, many large scale cases have arisen in the public sector; however,... | comment | 22 May 2012 1:26PM

Fireman claims sexual discrimination over hair cut
Hmmmm..... this case seems to be a tad mischeivous and there are possibly other personality factors at work here. I spent many years as an operational fire fighter and officer, especially thr... | comment | 21 May 2012 9:05PM

Fireman claims sexual discrimination over hair cut
I'd largely agree with John. However, it’s not rare for ratings to be selected for promotion to commissioned officer rank in the Royal Navy. In my time in the RN, some 20% of all officers st... | comment | 21 May 2012 11:08AM

Equal pay claim could cost Network Rail millions
Oh what a surprise...yet another case of equal pay stemming from the public sector....the company may now be private but I just bet those practices were inherited. The worst offenders are the publi... | comment | 19 May 2012 6:04PM

Fireman claims sexual discrimination over hair cut
From my very limited direct experience of the Fire Service compared with a number of years working as a member of a Constabulary's support staff, it always struck me that the Fire Service was ... | comment | 18 May 2012 9:34AM

Fireman claims sexual discrimination over hair cut
You have to take into account this is a disciplined service. Equal opportunities will apply but not all the time. Certainly in the Army a female could have long hair as long as it was kept neat and... | comment | 17 May 2012 4:35PM

Fireman claims sexual discrimination over hair cut
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Fireman claims sexual discrimination over hair cut
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