Employment UK

  • February 28, 2025

    NHS Nurse Left Out Of Tea Round By Colleague Wins £41K

    A diabetes specialist has won £41,000 ($51,700) from the NHS Trust where she worked after a tribunal ruled that the hospital had failed to appropriately address a serious breakdown in relationship between her and a colleague.

  • February 27, 2025

    Court Clerk Can Keep Most Of £226K Retirement Payout

    A former court clerk has won the right to collect the majority of his £226,800 ($287,500) retirement payout, convincing a tribunal that the Ministry of Justice can only subtract £88,800 for a lump sum he has already picked up.

  • February 27, 2025

    Tesco Can Re-Do Arguments On Equal Pay Expert Evidence

    Tesco on Thursday won a second shot at introducing expert economist evidence as part of its equal pay battle with mostly female shop workers who claim they were unfairly paid less than their predominantly male warehouse staff counterparts.

  • February 27, 2025

    Wildlife Channel Must Pay £95K To Fired Remote Worker

    An employment tribunal has ordered a popular wildlife TV channel to pay a former employee £95,203 ($120,675) after it feigned concerns about the legality of his remote work in order to fire him.

  • February 27, 2025

    Gibson Dunn Atty Wins Exit From Amazon Worker Dispute

    An employment tribunal has dismissed a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP lawyer from a former Amazon worker's unfair dismissal claim after ruling the Dallas-based associate had been dragged into the claim in a case of mistaken identity.

  • February 27, 2025

    Lib Dem Founder Loses Fight Against Expulsion From Party

    A founder of the Liberal Democrats has lost her case that she was unfairly expelled from the party as a London court ruled on Thursday that an internal tribunal had not made errors that invalidated her expulsion over a bullying complaint.

  • February 27, 2025

    Menopause-Related Tribunal Claims Triple, Law Firm Says

    Employment tribunal claims involving issues linked to the menopause have surged in number since 2022 as employers grapple with the widening definition of disability, according to research carried out by a law firm.

  • February 26, 2025

    Lawyer's Age Bias Win Is A Cue To Revisit Retirement Norms

    A legal victory by a Walker Morris LLP partner over the firm's mandatory retirement policy is a "warning shot" to firms underscoring that they cannot rely on forced ousters to make room for younger talent to advance, lawyers say, as the once-declining practice regains popularity.

  • February 26, 2025

    Pension Watchdog Could Face Strain From Superfund Surge

    The U.K.'s retirement savings watchdog should consider a fast-track route to approving superfund transactions, a consultancy said Wednesday, warning that "regulatory bandwidth" could prove a barrier to a growth in demand.

  • February 26, 2025

    Pensions Industry Warns Of 'Unique' Pressures For Gen Z

    Policymakers should legislate to include gig workers and the self-employed in retirement savings systems to improve the "unique" financial pressures faced by those born from the mid-to-late 1990s to the early 2010s, a pensions research organization said Wednesday.

  • February 26, 2025

    Solicitor Must Pay £20K To SRA For Baseless Bias Claims

    An employment tribunal has ordered a solicitor to pay £20,000 ($25,284) to cover the Solicitors Regulation Authority's costs in defending his baseless allegations of race and disability bias, ruling that it was an exceptional case.

  • February 26, 2025

    FCA Urged To Ban Pension Transfer Incentives

    Britain's finance watchdog should ban pension transfer incentives and require providers to display comparable information about schemes, a pensions provider said Wednesday, amid a string of other proposals it said would improve transparency and saver outcomes.

  • February 26, 2025

    BBC Beats Former Presenter's Gay Discrimination Claim

    The BBC did not discriminate against a gay radio presenter based on his sexuality when it disciplined him over tweets and on-air comments that breached its editorial guidelines, a tribunal has ruled.

  • February 25, 2025

    Professor Wins Over £1M Over Disability-Linked Dismissal

    An employment tribunal has ordered the University of Edinburgh to pay over £1 million ($1.2 million) to an engineering professor it fired following a two-year absence with work-related stress. 

  • February 25, 2025

    BBC Admits Falling Short On Misconduct Claims Against DJ

    The BBC apologized on Tuesday for its failure to address a pattern of behavior by former radio DJ Tim Westwood after an investigation found that it had "missed opportunities" to act on concerns about his conduct, including evidence of bullying and misogynistic behavior.

  • February 25, 2025

    M&G Pens £111M Pension Deal For UK-Based Asset Manager

    M&G PLC on Tuesday said it has taken on £111 million ($140.5 million) in retirement savings liabilities from an unnamed, U.K.-based asset manager's pension scheme, in a deal guided by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Hogan Lovells.

  • February 25, 2025

    Pension Insurer PIC Invests £50M In UK Port Group

    Specialist U.K. insurer PIC has invested an extra £50 million ($63 million) in port group Peel — the second deal concluded between the two following a funding round that provided £33 million in 2023.

  • February 25, 2025

    Gov't Urged To Bolster Safeguards For Pension Lifeboat Fund

    The U.K. government's plan to allow businesses to tap into well-funded pension schemes may need to include new safeguards to protect the sector's lifeboat scheme, a trade body warned Tuesday.

  • February 25, 2025

    Pension 'Mortality Index' Tweaks Proposed For Pandemic

    A trade body floated changes on Tuesday to an actuarial model for life expectancy that underpins the U.K.'s £3 trillion ($3.8 trillion) pensions industry, a move to better reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • February 25, 2025

    Ex-Reed Worker Wins Claim For Delay In Ordering Office Aids

    Reed Talent unreasonably stalled the order of specialized office equipment for a disabled worker, a tribunal has ruled, as it also found that this contributed to her eventual decision to quit the recruitment agency.

  • February 24, 2025

    Equality Watchdog Intervenes In Trans Changing Room Row

    The equality regulator has written to the Scottish government and an NHS trust to remind them of their obligation under the Equality Act 2010 to ensure that people with protected characteristics do not face harassment after a row in a tribunal over single-sex changing rooms.

  • February 24, 2025

    Insider Traders Were 'Mini Cash Laundromat,' FCA Tells Jury

    An alleged insider dealing syndicate that included a former analyst at global asset management firm Janus Henderson operated a "mini-cash laundromat," the Financial Conduct Authority told a London court on Monday.

  • February 24, 2025

    Fired Fundraising Manager Loses Disability Bias Claims

    A fundraising account manager who was sacked after she was found posting on social media while on sick leave has lost her case against her former employer, with an employment tribunal ruling that the company had legitimate concerns with her performance.

  • February 24, 2025

    UK To Ask Employers To Pay For Staff Medical Check-Ups

    The U.K. plans to ask employers to invest in vaccinations and medical check-ups for staff as part of reforms to the health and disability system that will be unveiled in the coming months.

  • February 24, 2025

    UK Gov't Faces Legal Threat Over State Pension Redress

    Campaigners fighting for women to be compensated over historic state failures to inform them that their pension age had changed on Monday threatened the government with legal action over its decision not to set up a redress scheme.

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