A former presenter on the BBC’s Countryfile programme has today won an age discrimination case against the corporation. Miriam O’Reilly was moved off the show along with a number of [...]
A tribunal has ruled that a dinner lady, who was sacked after telling a couple that their daughter was being bullied, was unfairly dismissed from her job. Carol Hill was sacked from her job at [...]
New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that for the first time, women in their twenties are earning more than men of the same age. The figures reveal that women aged 22 to 29 [...]
A man has died after the 27-ton crane he was driving, fell into a freezing river. The man, who was aged 27, was declared dead about three hours after the accident which occurred at Mepal, [...]
An inquest on a Batley man who died from injuries first caused at work, has recorded a verdict of accidental death. In April 2007 Tom Whitmarsh was working as a roofing contractor on the Menai [...]
A man has been left paralysed from the chest down after being crushed by two tonnes of paper. Christopher John Shaw, who had been working as an assistant winder at SCA Hygiene Products in North [...]
A mining company has said that it will appeal a decision by the Irish supreme court to award a businessman €10m, about £8.5m, in libel damages. The award, a record in Ireland, came [...]
The new Equality Act 2010 which comes into force this October is the focus of this new blog post. Those supporting the bill see it as a way of consolidating law in this area into one single piece [...]
As the end of 2009 approaches, James Stephenson looks at some of the upcoming legislative changes due to take effect in 2010 that directly affect employers and businesses. Right to request time [...]
