A new duty came into force on 26 October 2024 requiring UK employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of employees in the course of their employment under the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act...more
Employers have a new duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of employees in the course of their employment under the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 (the Act). After receiving...more
The UK government published its response to the Women and Equalities Committee’s (WEC) report on “Menopause and the Workplace” on 24 January. In a watering down of the WEC’s proposals, and what the WEC has described as a...more
While there is currently no specific regulatory framework in the United Kingdom governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI), it is partially regulated. With a number of employment law and data privacy implications, the...more
In its report on menopause in the workplace, the UK House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee recommended that menopause be considered a protected characteristic under Section 14 of the Equality Act. In the meantime,...more
Laws in the United Kingdom and United States are increasingly taking a more restrictive view on the permitted scope of exclusivity and noncompete clauses. On December 4, 2020, the UK government launched a consultation on...more
Royal Mail has successfully persuaded the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal to uphold an injunction halting plans for a Christmas strike by postal service workers due to alleged breaches of the procedural requirements for...more
The UK Court of Appeal (the CoA) issued its judgment on 13 June in the case of Kostal UK Ltd v Dale Dunkley and Others, which called into question the scope of S.145B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Consolidation Act...more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on 14 May in Federacion de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras v Deutsche Bank SAE, which called into question the validity of member states’ implementation of the European Union’s...more
The central issue in two appeals brought in the UK Court of Appeal in May was whether it is unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex for men on shared parental leave to be paid less than women on statutory maternity leave...more