Sarah Marten
For many employers, the Employment Rights Act 2025 can feel like a moving target. Just as businesses have got to grips with the changes introduced earlier this year, another wave of reforms is now on the horizon.
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Adrian Fryer
The Equality Act 2010 is the primary legislative framework covering discrimination in employment. In terms of the protected characteristic of sex, several different forms of discrimination are recognised. One of these is indirect discrimination. If an employer operates a provision, criterion, or practice (PCP) which places those of a certain sex at a particular disadvantage when compared with others, this will be discriminatory unless the employer can justify the PCP as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.
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The law on religion and belief discrimination protects employees not only from less favourable treatment because of a protected belief itself, but also because of the manifestation of that belief. However, not every opinion expressed by an employee will qualify as a manifestation of a protected belief.
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A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal decision serves as a useful reminder that even discretionary bonus arrangements can create enforceable contractual rights once discretion has been exercised.
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The Government has published its response to consultation on electronic and workplace balloting for statutory trade union ballots, alongside a draft Code of Practice, setting out how workplace ballots could operate in practice.
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The government has launched a consultation on strengthening employment rights for unpaid carers and parents of seriously ill children, signalling that carers’ rights may remain firmly on the employment law agenda in the years ahead.
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Most HR professionals will be familiar with unfair dismissal claims, but wrongful dismissal is a different type of claim altogether. Whereas unfair dismissal focuses on the fairness of the employer’s decision to dismiss, wrongful dismissal is a contractual claim that looks at whether the employer was entitled to terminate employment without notice.
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A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal decision provides a useful reminder that employers cannot always rely on the absence of a formal occupational health opinion when assessing whether an employee is disabled under the Equality Act 2010.
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On 19 June 2026, a significant change to UK data protection law came into force. Under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, employees and other individuals now have a statutory right to raise data protection complaints directly with their employer before escalating concerns to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
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A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision provides useful guidance for employers that have moved to digital-only payslips.
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