Back in the early 90s, the US military coined the term VUCA – an acronym to describe the unpredictable state of the world following the...

What is a personal pronoun? A personal pronoun is how an individual wishes to be referred to in order to indicate their gender identity....

Leicester City Council urged the Employment Appeal Tribunal to overturn a decision that there were no reasonable grounds to dismiss an...

Did You Know... ... Young workers are more likely to have a workplace accident in their first six months of working, than in the rest of...

Unfair Dismissal... Do You Know What To Do? If a tribunal rules that an employee has been dismissed for an automatically unfair reason,...

Below are important updates to Employment Law. September 2022 Real living wage increase been brought forward from November, due to cost...

UNISON have supported the Supreme Court judgement that guarantees minimum paid annual leave for all workers The Supreme Court has ruled...

In a recent employment tribunal case the employee was employed as an electrician by a small family business for approximately 24 years...

Post 5 years ago, it was a slow trend towards remote working, since the pandemic, there has been an instant shift to remote working for...

Whilst there is no legislation, Employment Tribunal ruling or legal requirement and the majority of people infected with Covid recover...

You may only have enough business to require significantly fewer staff or changes have arisen over time that may lead to restructure. Or...

Employee absence is unavoidable and whilst there are good reasons for the employee away from work, it can go from being a minor...

A tribunal is entitled to dismiss a discrimination claim when an alleged disability dismissal was only known about by the employer after...

How should employment tribunals make determinations on preliminary issues in discrimination claims? With careful and reasoned analysis...

Employers can strongly encourage employees to accept the vaccination. Across all settings, employers are obliged under the Health and...

A report in the BBC News , after a tribunal ruled that her employer had failed to consider reasonably her request to work a four day...

If you don’t make time for your mental health, you’ll have to make time for your mental illness. It has recently been reported that an...

At The Affable Partnership we believe in making sure you have all the tools to look after your employees, no matter the circumstance. So,...

In May this year ACAS published a report "Estimating the Cost of Workplace Conflict". The report reveals some surprising statistics with...

A recent employment tribunal heard how an employee, who worked for a large US tech company, had written some defensive emails to his...