Aims to end the fear faced by many women Parliament is considering a bill that will provide greater protections against redundancy for pregnant women and new mothers. Under current protections, a woman who is made redundant during her maternity leave must...

Working time is forever in the news It’s fair to say that working time is forever in the news, whether it be how to treat travel time or sleeping in shifts. The case of Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE. strips back...

Sacked because she used a work PC for online shopping An employee who was sacked because she used a work PC for online shopping during her breaks has won her claim for unfair dismissal and has been awarded £16,000. In late 2017 Ashley McMahon was...

Employees encouraged to shout out insults and offensive terms Pobl Group, a housing association, organised diversity training for its staff on the 8th March 2018. Teresa Georges was a cleaner for the Group, recently employed on the 4th January 2018. During...

Entitled to National Minimum Wage? In the case of Frudd v Partington Group, the EAT had to decide whether wardens/receptionists who were on call from evening to morning were working on “time work” and therefore entitled to National Minimum Wage. The...

Breach of his working time rights? The Court of Appeal has unanimously ruled against a railway signal box worker who claimed his inability to take an uninterrupted break at work amounted to a breach of his working time rights. Under Working Time...