Coverage of shared parental leave, one of our main employment law changes, has picked up recently, not least thanks to our Minister and her husband blazing the trail with their childcare arrangements. It is an ambitious reform – it is …
Since the start of April 2014, Employment Tribunal judges are able to impose financial penalties on employers who have severely breached employment law. The main aim of financial penalties is to ensure compliance with employment law by penalising rogue employers. …
Last month I blogged about whistleblowing law and how it offers a legal remedy to those who suffer a detriment as a result of raising a concern at work. I talked about the Call for Evidence that the Government ran last …
Employers attending a BIS conference on flexible working in London yesterday heard from Jenny Willott, employment law Minister, and others on the business benefits of flexible working and case studies on the practical steps employers have taken to manage flexible …
People rightly expect to be protected from suffering any mistreatment by their employer should they blow the whistle at work about a matter of genuine public concern. Employment law gives individuals who feel they have suffered mistreatment, as a result …
Jenny Willott, the Minister for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs spoke recently at a seminar organised by the Westminster Employment Forum. She talked about changes to employment law, its impact so far and the next steps. She updated the audience …
Hello my name is Nick Morgan. I’m a policy advisor in Labour Market Directorate at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Over the past year I have been working with Acas to implement the Early Conciliation policy. I want …