An Edinburgh appeals tribunal has rejected a lawyer's quest for a higher payout after he proved that a compliance business botched his redundancy process, upholding an earlier ruling that he would have lost his job regardless.
An Edinburgh appeals tribunal has rejected a lawyer's quest for a higher payout after he proved that a compliance business botched his redundancy process, upholding an earlier ruling that he would have lost his job regardless.
An actuary hit with a two-year ban and a fine of almost £23,000 ($31,000) has convinced an employment tribunal that his belief in traditional Islam being problematic and deserving of criticism constituted a protected belief under the Equality Act.
Two human rights experts have been appointed to lead the U.K.'s equality watchdog on an interim basis in 2026 as permanent commissioners are recruited.
A new U.K. government funding worth approximately £20 million ($27 million) will help employees get legal help in a bid to increase access to justice, the Ministry of Justice said Tuesday.
Almost 40,000 former British coal industry workers have been handed a significant pension increase just days before Christmas, the U.K. government said Tuesday, after finalizing a long-running overhaul of retirement benefits for mining staff.
A year after the FCA was criticized for delays, dropped cases and its use of publicity powers, it entered 2025 under pressure to show its enforcement regime had teeth.
