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…
Police Scotland have paid a former female firearms officer just under £1 million by way of a settlement agreement to end litigation, following an Employment Tribunal decision handed down in September 2021. The Tribunal had found the Claimant to have been victimised within the workplace…
An Employment Tribunal panel (comprised of three men) has just ruled in the case before it that there was “a connection” between the word “bald” and the “protected characteristic of sex”. The term “bald” was used as an insult. This was classed as a form…