MPs have just agreed to radically extend the rights of pregnant women and mothers in a redundancy situation by approving a Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill. Under this, from the moment a woman tells her employer that she is pregnant up to…
Being around cake in the office is akin to passive smoking in terms of the harm it can cause according to Food Standards Agency (FSA) Chairwoman, Susan Jebb. She is also a Professor of Diet and Population Health at the University of Oxford. She believes…
Over-50s are struggling to find employment due to employer’s adverse opinions on people aged over 50, their caring responsibilities and the lifestyle changes they wish (or, in some cases, need) to embrace. Research conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (the CMI), which focuses on management…
An Employment Tribunal has just awarded whistleblowing NHS consultant, Jasna Macanovic, a whopping £219,000 in compensation. At work, she expressed concerns about a procedure called “buttonholing”, which uses blunt needles to aid dialysis. Dialysis is a procedure to remove waste products and excess fluid from…
Do we understand hidden disabilities as we should? Is it right for someone with a hidden disability to be forced into having to say they have one? The furore last week around Senior Councillor Rachel Garrick knitting during a budget council Zoom meeting was very…
To add to their woes, an estimated five to ten thousand NHS staff are about to see their pay halved this month as a result of them still being off work with Long Covid. A special sick pay rule was introduced early on in the…
Should a transgender woman convicted of sexual offences when she was a man be allowed to serve her sentence in a female jail? On Tuesday, a transgender woman, Isla Bryson, was convicted of raping two women after a six-day trial held at the High Court…
The government has rejected a call to introduce menopause leave on a trial basis for women, claiming that it would be “counterproductive” and discriminate against men with long-term medical conditions. Ministers have also dismissed a recommendation to make menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality…
Right now, we’re assisting no fewer than three senior individual clients who are in one of the three stages of the menopause and experiencing problems at work (and have accrued high value employment law claims) as a result. Perimenopause is the first stage, followed by…
NEWSFLASH: This morning, the High Court has ruled that the Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful. However, eight individual cases of asylum seekers must be reconsidered. This does not mean the asylum seekers have to leave imminently. A court decision…