POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 22 FEBRUARY 2021 Supreme Court upholds Uber drivers’ claim for worker status The Supreme Court has confirmed that Yaseen Aslam and a small group of other drivers had the status of workers, not self-employed contractors, when working for Uber... Read more Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read Contractual issues Flexible and atypical working Working time
POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 15 FEBRUARY 2021 Government acts to disapply public sector exit payments regulations The Treasury has issued a Direction which disapplies the Regulations which introduced a cap on public sector exit payments in November last year... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 11 FEBRUARY 2021 “Stale” training insufficient to establish reasonable steps defence to harassment claim The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision to reject an employer’s defence to a racial harassment claim, based on training which had been delivered several years before the events in question and was “clearly stale”... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 10 FEBRUARY 2021 Post-Brexit review of workers’ rights cancelled After giving mixed messages last month about a planned review of workers’ rights, the new Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has now conceded that the review “is no longer happening” in his department... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
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