This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) the Parker Review update report, (2) an agreement on the Platform Work Directive, (3) the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024, (4) a First-tier Tax Tribunal decision that a footballer’s agent fees were not an allowable deduction, (5) Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No 3) Regulations 2024, (6) analysis of an EAT judgment on what it means for an employee to have ‘sought’ to take parental leave for the purpose of obtaining protection against dismissal, (7) the Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024, (8) analysis of an EAT decision that an employer cannot be vicariously liable for detriment caused by the act of a co-worker which amounts to a dismissal, (9) the Treasury Committee Sexism in the City report, (10) an EAT judgment that an actor was not discriminated against when she was dropped from a role in a production of ‘The Color Purple’ over an anti-gay social media post, (11) an EAT decision about what must be included in a service complaint for the employment tribunal to hear an Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) claim by a member of the armed forces, (12) an EAT judgment that there is no requirement for an employer to identify the decision-maker in order to prove a material factor defence to an equal pay claim, (13) an EAT decision that the employment tribunal was entitled to strike out claims because the claimant had failed to exchange witness statements in accordance with the tribunal’s order, (14) the Data Protection Act 2018 (Amendment of Schedule 2 Exemptions) Regulations 2024, (15) updates to the Home Office guidance on sponsoring a skilled worker, (16) a new practice note and policy on carer’s leave, (17) a new practice note on paternity leave and pay, (18) a new practice note and Q&A on ‘ghosting’ produced in partnership with Elise Turner of Morton Fraser MacRoberts LLP, (19) dates for your diary, (20) updates to our case and legislation trackers and horizon scanner, and (21) a new Q&A.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) a briefing from the House of Commons library on fire and rehire, (2) an EAT decision on the correct application of the first stage burden of the proof test in discrimination claims, (3) an analysis of the use of training materials as the primary evidential source in stage 2 of an equal value claim in the most recent Tesco decision, (4) an EAT decision on the use of strike out in cases involving intentional and contumelious default, (5) a report from the Work Rights Centre on employment tribunal delays and recommendations for reform, (6) EAT guidance on the limited circumstances in which respondents may participate in Rule 3(10) hearings, (7) publication of the June 2026 IRLRs, (8) dates for your diary, and (9) other news and resources of interest to employment practitioners.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) analysis from Nick Chronias, Partner at DAC Beachcroft LLP, David Reade KC and Joseph Bryan, barristers at Littleton Chambers, and Jonathan Tuck, Partner at Baker McKenzie of a Supreme Court decision on rectification of mistakes in collective agreements, (2) an Order setting pay and conditions of school teachers in Wales from 1 September 2024, (3) an employment tribunal decision finding that Bolt app drivers have worker status, (4) the coming into force of the Platform Work Directive, (5) a Court of Appeal decision concerning civil penalty notices under the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, (6) the Department for Business and Trade consultation report following consultation with devolved governments on UK-Switzerland professional qualifications recognition implementation, (7) HMRC guidance for employers on reporting the apprenticeship levy and employment allowance, (8) an Equality and Human Rights Commission checklist and action plan for preventing sexual harassment at work, (9) a Financial Reporting Council consultation on updates to the UK Stewardship Code, (10) plans for an ‘omnibus’ EU Regulation to simplify EU sustainability reporting duties, (11) regulations bringing into force the offence of failing to prevent fraud provisions under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, (12) lessons for lawyers from the Home Office guidance on the offence of failing to prevent fraud, (13) an EAT judgment on the admissibility of pre-termination negotiations in ‘ordinary’ unfair dismissal claims, (14) Regulations extending temporary justice measures introduced in Scotland during the Coronavirus pandemic for an additional 12 months, (15) an important message from the Employment Tribunal President’s Support Office on the Notice of Change (Notice of Acting) functionality on MyHMCTS for claimant representatives, (16) updated agenda templates for Scottish employment tribunals, (17) a new tracker for employment-related legislation in force in 2023, (18) dates for your diary, (19) updates to our case, consultation and legislation trackers and horizon scanner, and (20) new Q&As.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) a report from the High Pay Centre analysing the pay of FTSE 100 executives in 2023, (2) an EAT judgment upholding an employment tribunal’s rejection of dismissal claims despite a previous tribunal finding that there had been failures to make reasonable adjustments in an earlier period, (3) the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, (4) the US Department of Justice’s Criminal Division Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, (5) an award of £115,000 to a Personal Assistant who was asked to unnecessarily go against coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions by working from her employers’ homes, (6) an EAT decision about the irrelevance of an employee’s failure to appeal the outcome of their grievance when deciding whether or not the employer was in repudiatory breach of contract, (7) analysis of an EAT judgment on the need for an adjournment when there were real concerns about the capacity of a witness to give evidence, (8) publication by the European Commission of FAQs about the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, (9) details of a review to be carried out by the Migration Advisory Committee on information technology and telecommunications professionals and engineering professions, (10) a new precedent policy on tips, gratuities and service charges, (11) the IRLR Highlights for September 2024, (12) dates for your diary, (13) updates to our legislation tracker and horizon scanner, and (14) new Q&As.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) analysis of an EAT decision about the enquiries a tribunal should make before making a deposit order, (2) an EAT judgment which refers to circumstances when a claim should have been rejected as being one which cannot be sensibly responded to, (3) an EAT decision that an indirect discrimination claim based on the employer’s use of German language at work had been wrongly struck out at a preliminary hearing, (4) the agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on new working conditions for platform workers, (5) a tax judgment relating to the settlement of employment tribunal proceedings, (6) the launch of the government’s new Disability Action Plan, (7) a Court of Justice decision relating to the processing of an employee's health data, (8) the response from the Home Office to its consultation on minimum service levels for fire and rescue services, (9) draft regulations on minimum service levels for fire and rescue services in England, (10) new guidance from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to support implementation of AI regulatory principles, (11) the decision of the European Central Bank about information on remuneration and gender pay gap, (12) updated guidance on right to work checks from the Home Office,(13) dates for your diary, (14) updates to our case, consultation and legislation trackers, as well as to our Employment horizon scanner, and (15) new Q&As.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) the first regulations relating to the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025), (2) draft regulations relating to bereaved partner’s paternity leave, (3) revised draft codes of practice on industrial action and picketing, (4) EAT decisions on withdrawal and dismissal, the burden of proof test in equality claims and costs in the EAT, (5) new guidance for professional sports agents on employment agency compliance, (6) advance notice of a new telephony service for the Croydon and London East Employment Tribunals, (7) a new Practice Note produced in partnership with Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP on considerations for global employers under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, (8) dates for your diary, and (9) other news items of interest to employment practitioners.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) amendments to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to extend the right to work regime to ‘gig economy’ workers, (2) comments from Sophie Barrett-Brown of Laura Devine Immigration and Katie Newbury of Kingsley Napley on the government’s Immigration White Paper, (3) the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s extended consultation period for updates to the Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, (4) an EAT case confirming that workers contracted via an employment business cannot make indirect discrimination claims based on discrepancies between their pay and that of directly employed workers, (5) a letter from the Department for Business and Trade announcing forthcoming extension to the whistleblowing regime in relation to UK sanctions, (6) a decision from the Supreme Court that Dyson cannot challenge jurisdiction in its forced labour case, (7) a Court of Appeal decision that the EAT interpretation of a ‘minor error’ under rule 37(6) of the EAT Rules was too narrow and (8) dates for your diary.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) an Upper Tribunal decision on employer liability for NICs under host employer rules, (2) an Employment Tribunal decision on sex discrimination and reasonable adjustments relating to the provision of workplace toilet facilities, (3) a new DBT consultation on misuse of NDAs under ERA 2025, (4) an update on the EHRC draft Code of Practice on services and public functions, (5) a response to the DBT consultation on union access to workplaces and new consultation on a draft code of practice, (6) publication of the May 2026 IRLRs, (7) updates to ERA 2025 content including a new Practice Note on equality action plans, (8) dates for your diary, and (9) other updates and resources of interest to employment practitioners.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) miscarriage and bereavement leave report, calling on the government to provide a period of paid leave to women and their partners who experience pre-24 week pregnancy loss, (2) an EAT judgment looking at how to calculate a day’s pay for holiday pay purposes following the Supreme Court’s decision in Agnew, (3) dates for your diary, and (4) other news items of interest to employment practitioners.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) developments, including regulations extending Employment Tribunal time limits from three to six months, the government’s action plan for unpaid carers, and the Department for Education’s response to the consultation on the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, (2) the withdrawal of the draft revised Code of Practice on Fair and Transparent Distribution of Tips, (3) a joint statement from the Lady Chief Justice, Senior President of Tribunals and Bar Council’s Commissioner for Conduct on tackling bullying, harassment, discrimination and exclusionary behaviour in courts and tribunals, (4) regulations revoking the Equality and Human Rights Commission 2011 Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations and replacing it with the updated 2026 Code with effect from 5 August 2026, (5) a government consultation on comprehensive reform of the equal pay and pay discrimination framework, (6) an EAT decision providing guidance on continuing acts when deciding statutory time limits in discrimination claims, (7) new EDPB guidelines on anonymisation, (8) a Court of Appeal decision on the enforceability of a training costs clawback agreement as a restraint of trade, (9) what’s coming up in the employment law world in the next few weeks, and (10) other updates and resources of interest to employment law practitioners.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) an important update on the HMCTS reform project, (2) an EAT case analysing whether a volunteer for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency was a worker, (3) analysis by Harini Iyengar, barrister at 11KBW, of the High Court’s decision that a school’s policy banning pupils from prayer ritual was lawful, (4) a Law360 article about a suggestion from the Serious Fraud Office that whistleblowers in the UK should be paid from plea deals, (5) responses to the Sexism in the City report, (6) a review by Charli Curran and Ankura Zulfi Meerza of Rahman Ravelli of the legal and regulatory developments in relation to non-financial misconduct, (7) a government announcement that guidance on the new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence is expected in early summer, (8) a number of immigration updates, (9) the IRLR highlights for June 2024, (10) dates for your diary, (11) updates to our legislation and consultation trackers and our horizon scanner, and (12) new Q&As.

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) a Court of Appeal decision upholding HMRC’s tax assessment on expense payments of an umbrella company, (2) an EAT judgment holding that the Jhuti approach of looking behind a decision-maker’s reason should not be applied to detriment of dismissal claims, (3) a CJEU decision providing guidance on whether pseudonymised data is personal data under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), (4) the announcement by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of reforms to the banker remuneration regime, (5) confirmation that the government will not attempt to reintroduce employment tribunal fees, (6) an EAT judgment finding a tribunal had erred in refusing a permanent anonymity application on the basis it was not supported by medical evidence, (6) the November 2025 edition of the Industrial Relations Law Reports (IRLR), (7) dates for your diary, and (8) other news items of interest to employment practitioners.