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- Date:
- 18 April 2019
- Type:
- Legal guidance
Last month the High Court dismissed a case which claimed outsourced workers should be able to negotiate pay and conditions for the organisations they work for. Tom Long, legal director and employment law specialist at law firm Shakespeare Martineau, looks at what impact the case could have had, had it been successful.
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- Type:
- Law reports
Updated to reflect that the Supreme Court has granted Morrisons permission to appeal the Court of Appeal's decision in WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various claimants.
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- Type:
- Indicators
Updated to include official statistics from the ONS for February 2019 on days lost to labour disputes and the number of stoppages. The next ONS release date is 14 May 2019.
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- Type:
- Quick reference
Updated to reflect an increase in the limits applying to employment tribunal awards, with effect from 6 April 2019.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to reflect the increase in the fixed award for unlawful inducement, effective from 6 April 2019.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to take into account the increase to the limit on the compensatory award, in force from 6 April 2019.
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- Date:
- 28 March 2019
- Type:
- News
The High Court has dismissed a case brought by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which claimed that outsourced employees should be able to negotiate pay and conditions with the employers they work for.
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- Date:
- 13 March 2019
- Type:
- News
A pharmacists' union has invited Boots to "start a new positive chapter of employee relations" after winning an eight year battle for recognition at the company.
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- Date:
- 21 January 2019
- Type:
- News
Cleaners, receptionists and security guards at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) are set to go on strike tomorrow as part of action to demand the London Living Wage.
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- Date:
- 16 January 2019
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
The courts have seen a significant rise in the number of employment claims brought by large groups of individuals. The most common employee 'class actions' relate to equal pay and worker status. Caroline Stroud from Freshfields looks at the types of class action claims on the increase and how employers should respond.
