The Labour Party's victory at the general election and its introduction of the biggest overhaul of the country's employment rights in decades dominated the employment law landscape in 2024 — but other developments ushered in new operational considerations that employers will have to adapt to in 2025.
The Labour Party's victory at the general election and its introduction of the biggest overhaul of the country's employment rights in decades dominated the employment law landscape in 2024 — but other developments ushered in new operational considerations that employers will have to adapt to in 2025.
Law firm Cartwright Cunningham Haselgrove & Co. accused a former employee of being untruthful in her disability discrimination claim on Friday, with lawyers for the firm alleging she had "exaggerated" her injuries from a car crash.
An Afro-Caribbean caseworker has proved that a dismissive email sent by bosses at HM Revenue & Customs amounted to harassment, but lost dozens of other race bias allegations he brought at an employment tribunal.
A footballer convinced an appeals tribunal on Friday that his former club had victimized him after he complained about racial abuse by a fan, proving that the club penalized him by cutting communications with his agent.
A tribunal fined an Osborne Clarke LLP partner who represented Nadhim Zahawi £50,000 ($62,700) on Friday for trying to stop a blogger revealing that the former chancellor was contemplating libel action over allegations of dishonesty in his tax affairs.
A firefighter who was fired for sending a GIF of a gorilla to a Black colleague more than a year after an investigation concluded there was no disciplinary case to answer has won his claim of unfair dismissal, despite a tribunal ruling that his behavior was "blameworthy."
A longtime Sainsbury's staffer has lost his claim that he was fired for acting as a trade union representative, with an employment tribunal ruling that he was lawfully dismissed for harassing his female colleagues.
Spain cannot rely on state immunity to overturn a translator's harassment and discrimination claim, a London appeals court ruled Friday, finding that the conduct complained of was not part of a governmental activity.
This past week in London has seen the University of Southampton sue a drone-maker over the rights to an uncrewed aircraft patent, Importers Service Corp. and its subsidiary ISC Europe take action against a former director who allegedly owes the company over £1.1 million ($1.4 million), and DAC Beachcroft face a fraud claim by a "prolific litigant."
An influential campaign group on pension scams said Friday that it will not be able to play a bigger role in raising awareness without funding from the retirement sector.
