When the workplace is an active war zone, huge questions arise around risk, money, mental health and support. Firms operating in the Middle East are now looking at paying huge premiums to employees to ...

MPs have launched an investigation into how a lack of access to transport acts as a barrier to young people finding and taking up employment. While Westminster may be in flux with the arrival of the ...

Employers that rely on agency staff, contractors and labour supply chains have been urged to review their right to work processes after the government published updated draft guidance ahead of major ...

An employment tribunal in Glasgow has ruled that a care provider acted fairly in dismissing a support worker who took a vulnerable service user to his family home for New Year’s Day.

Changes to sick pay have been ranked as the hardest workplace challenge associated with the Employment Rights Act. According to a YouGov survey commissioned by conciliation service Acas, 30% of ...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that an IT company cannot force a graduate to repay over £8,000 in training costs. Mr Watts applied for a trainee role at Geeks, an IT services provider, in March 2019.

A group of 26 current and former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming it used AI for redundancy selection. The suit was filed earlier this week at a federal court in ...

A lack of effective preparation meant the UK entered the Covid-19 pandemic with its stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE) in a ‘perilous condition’, leaving health and social care workers ...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published its updated draft code of practice for services, public functions and associations after a motion by MPs to disapprove it failed to stop its ...

A learning technologist with dyspraxia at the University of Manchester who ‘persistently’ misgendered a trans colleague has been awarded £51,200 after she won her claims for discrimination arising ...

The government is being urged to extend statutory paternity leave and make it more generous, as part of its ongoing review into parental leave. Ministers launched a review of parental leave in July ...

Hannah Spencer, the Green MP who won the Gorton and Denton by-election in February, is to introduce a bill on maximum workplace temperatures. She described it as “absurd” that the UK does not have ...