Employer Liability Issues, UK, Wrongful Termination

Privilege And Iniquity, Whistleblowing Reports, Discrimination As A Repudiatory Breach And A News Round-Up

BCLP on 8/28/2025

Our employment law update for August covers a case about the iniquity exception to legal privilege, a whistleblowing case involving a long-delayed judgment and third party reports, and a case on whether discriminatory actions...more

The UK Employment Rights Bill

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/15/2024

On 10 October 2024, the UK government published its Employment Rights Bill. This bill includes many of the measures previously set out in the Labour Party’s “Plan to Make Work Pay” and the King’s Speech. See our July 2024 UK...more

Cross-Border Legal Perspectives: Comparing the UK and Germany's Approaches to Unfair Dismissal

Littler on 8/27/2024

Welcome to our new bi-monthly series, where we compare employment law and practice from an international perspective, drawing on the experience of local and international employment lawyers who deal with these issues every...more

UK: Employee Unfairly Dismissed for Failure to Install App on Personal Phone

Littler on 10/4/2023

A recent employment tribunal case, Alsnih v. Al Quds Al-Arabi Publishing & Advertising, ruled that a journalist was unfairly dismissed for refusing to install a work-related app on her personal phone. The app was considered...more

Employment News: wrongful dismissal, equal pay, workers

Hogan Lovells on 12/16/2019

Red faces – no gross misconduct when employee revealed executive's pay - The EAT had to consider whether an employee had acted in breach of contract or committed gross misconduct when he revealed details of an executive's...more

Case Alert: Overseas Worker Protected By UK Employment Law

K&L Gates LLP on 2/11/2015

What happened? The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) recently decided that an Australian citizen, working remotely from Australia for a British company, was entitled to bring unfair dismissal and whistleblowing claims...more