The CIPD is recommending possible legislation requiring parties to public service disputes to enter an arbitration process prior to industrial action, with extreme measure including a blanket ban on certain strikes.
However, the report, which was written by employee relations adviser Mike Emmott, says the new rules can be avoided through building public sector leadership [...]

The European Court of Justice has ruled that employers must account for output tax on the supply of salary sacrifice retail vouchers to employees.
It is believed that, although many employers recover VAT charged to them when they buy retail vouchers, there are likely to be a number of those that do not account [...]

A radical overhaul of employment tribunal procedure and administration is being proposed as HR professionals contend with a rising tide of claims from disgruntled employees.
There has been a massive hike in the number of claims accepted by employment tribunals in the past year. The 56% rise reported this month (July) by the Tribunal Services for [...]

In the build up to his presentation at September’s Stress Prevention & Mental Wellbeing Forum, Guy Hollebon, Director and Head of Employment at Bevans, offers insights into managing sickness absence through answering what sort of policies should we have in place, what to do when advice from the GP and Occupation Health conflict, how to [...]

Pregnant women in the armed forces will be given greater protection from discrimination after a ruling by the Employment Tribunal.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission funded the case brought by a female officer against the Royal Air Force in which she claimed she was removed from her job and had her promotion prospects delayed because [...]

The recent case of Rutherford v. Seymour Pierce Ltd illustrates that employers need to include an express term in the employment contract or bonus scheme to be sure that an employee, who has worked during the relevant performance period, is not entitled to a bonus if he has left employment by the payment date.
Seymour Pierce [...]

The Court of Appeal has offered a decision that could result in a substantial increase in compensation payouts for dismissed employees when an employer has failed to follow its disciplinary or capability procedures.
In the case of Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Michael Edwards, a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, is claiming [...]

Perceptions of male bias in the workplace are much greater among employees in small businesses than in the working population as a whole, according to new findings.
The research, which forms part of IFF Research’s Attitudes to Work study, shows while 10% of employees believe that men are treated better than women at work, this figure [...]

A former hedge fund employee has lost her case for discrimination against her boss as a central London unemployment tribunal found her not to be a "persuasive witness".
Jordan Whimmer, 29, also alleged that Mark Lowe, of Nomos Capital, would share his sexual fantasies with her and regularly groped her over a four-year period.
Ms Whimmer, who [...]

The GMB union is satisfied with the outcome of an employment tribunal that could cost a local authority hundreds of millions of pounds.
It represented 1,400 women in their claims for equal pay against Birmingham City Council, which it won yesterday (April 27th).
According to a statement, lawyers estimate the level of award to be in the [...]