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This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Birmingham Employment Tribunal’s decision in Taylor v Jaguar Land Rover (“Taylor“), where Ms Taylor’s non-binary, gender fluid identity constituted “gender reassignment” and was therefore capable of protection under section 7(1) of the Equality Act 2010 (“section 7(1)“, the “Act“).
As a…
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On October 1, 2024, the newly adopted Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (hereinafter: the Tipping Act), came into force, accompanied by a Code of Practice on the fair and transparent distribution of tips (hereinafter: the Code), issued by the Department for Business & Trade (hereinafter: DBT). According to the…
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In October 2024, a group of UCL academics and students visited an exhibition at the Wellcome Trust entitled ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’. I had been asked by my colleague, Humera Iqbal, to lead a discussion after the exhibition. The invitation to lead a discussion on…
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We are both old enough to remember the last time when a new Labour Government with a significant majority embarked on a programme of labour law reform in 1998-1999. In the White Paper Fairness at Work (1998), the Government set its ideological course on social partnership, “modern companies”, and “regulating for competitiveness” (…
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If employees are unable to ‘switch off’ from work, the consequences can be serious. Employees who are constantly accessible to their employer via digital devices are more likely to experience ‘suboptimal’ health outcomes for both their physical and mental health. As Benoit Hamon of the…
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One commitment made in the Labour Party’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’ was introducing a ‘right to switch off’ from work. Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic demonstrated that a wide range of flexible and remote working patterns are possible, it also highlighted how an employer’s demands and…
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This blogpost revisits the 2011 UK Supreme Court decision in Jivraj v Hashwani [2011] UKSC 40, which adopted a narrow reading of the personal scope of the Equality Act 2010 as it applies to the self-employed. It argues that this decision represented a wrong turn in the law,…
We have long required a cool hard look at remedies in employment law. Thus far works such as Anthony Korn’s book have been a description of such remedies. We especially need this review with a new Government which may be willing to make changes to a regime which has been stuck in creosote since the…
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The King’s Speech on 17 July 2024 announced the 35 Bills which are the legislative priority of the new Labour Government. Those relating to labour law are of particular interest to readers of this blog.
Labour’s manifesto referred across to its plans for labour reform: a New Deal…
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In Mercer, the Supreme Court (SC) confronted a glaring hole in the statutory edifice of freedom of association and industrial action (as currently consolidated in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 [TULRCA]). Following various statutory interventions after 1971, the law protects employees from dismissal…
