A building contractor from Altrincham has been fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £3,000 in costs following the collapse of building blocks and numerous unsafe
Further to the announcement that an Apprenticeship Levy will be introduced from April 2017 (reported here), the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has
The thorny issue of childcare vouchers and whether these should continue to be provided during maternity leave has been revisited by the Employment Appeal Tribunal
There has been yet more news regarding the issue of holiday pay. Back in April 2015, the Employment Tribunal decided in Lock v British Gas
An employee of supermarket chain Aldi was taking a smoking break outside one of their distribution centres when a gust of wind moved an unsecured
The Government has stated that they are committed to closing the difference in pay between men and women. In July 2015, a consultation was launched
As we have reported previously, the Government is committed to increasing the number of apprenticeship opportunities in the coming years. To assist in funding this,
Where a commercial contract to provide services changes hands (known as a “service provision change”), the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection from Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE)
It’s all go in the world of collective redundancy consultation. Following on from the European Woolworths decision in May (reported here), there has been a
In November 2014, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) handed down its decision in the case of Bear Scotland Ltd v Fulton, which stated that, when
