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What Tesco v USDAW can teach us about the contractual employment relationship

What Tesco v USDAW can teach us about the contractual employment relationship

Following last week’s case summary on the Supreme Court's decision in USDAW v Tesco, this week's blog looks at what the case can teach us…

How to Deal with a Serial Complainer

How to Deal with a Serial Complainer

Introduction Most employee problems can usually quickly be categorised as capability or misconduct, but what about behaviour which isn’t obviously one or the other, but…

Fire and Re-hire

Fire and Re-hire

In the case of USDAW and others v Tesco Stores, the Supreme Court reviewed Tesco's decision to end certain employment contracts that included a provision…

Exploring the Challenges of Anonymous Workplace Reporting

Exploring the Challenges of Anonymous Workplace Reporting

In the UK, workplace issues like harassment and bullying are often not reported. A 2020 CIPD survey found that 53% victims of workplace harassment did…

Part-time Workers

Part-time Workers

Part-time workers have protection from discrimination in the form of the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000. Workers are protected against less…

What’s ‘Next’ for Equal Pay?

What’s ‘Next’ for Equal Pay?

Last week, in Thandi and others v Next, an employment tribunal ruled in favour of more than 3,500 current and former retail consultants at the…