Please support an online petition available at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623554, which a friend of ours with close links to the palace has launched, seeking to change the name of the “Order of the British Empire” to the “Order of the British Commonwealth”. The Black Lives Matter campaign…
From today, TV cameras are being allowed into criminal trials to show them to the public for the very first time. This is a landmark moment, following on from a new law passed in 2020, which allows the more serious criminal cases in the Crown…
MPs are calling for greater rights and protection for working women going through the menopause. This comes in response to the Women and Equalities Commission reporting that a lack of support for menopausal women in the UK is pushing them out of work and that…
Parents whose newborn babies need specialist hospital neonatal care are about to gain an eligibility to take 12 weeks of neonatal leave, potentially with neonatal pay, on top of their applicable statutory maternity and paternity leave and pay entitlements. This will come via the Neonatal…
A Senior District Nurse has been awarded over £462,000 by an Employment Tribunal for her unfair dismissal claim following a four-year legal battle. Ms Fairhall, who had 38 years of experience in the NHS, first raised concerns in 2015 about patient safety due to the…
An Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the decision that Dr Mackereth, a Christian doctor, was not discriminated against by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for refusing to refer to transgender clients by their preferred pronouns. Dr M explained his beliefs during his induction…
From this Friday (1 July 2022), nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists working in GP practices or in hospitals will be able to issue and sign fitness for work certificates in just the same way that GPs can. This change follows on from the digitalisation…
Did you know that more than 3,300 workers at 70 UK employers are currently participating in a trial where they are working 80% of their time (over a four day week for a full-time employee) whilst still receiving 100% of their pay? In return, they…
We have just had our very first Employment Tribunal in the UK giving someone disability status by virtue of them having contracted COVID-19, which led to post viral fatigue syndrome (and what we are tending to call Long COVID). A charity caretaker, Terence Burke, worked…
Beware of saying that maternity leave is like a holiday or that women essentially have it easy because they get to take it. Susanne Rice, a former Operations Manager with Flint Studios, brought a Tribunal claim for sex and age discrimination against it with the…