Author Archives: Darren Newman
Implementing the Employment Rights Bill
As the Employment Rights Bill nears the end of its passage through Parliament (the Lords Report stage starts on 14 July), the Government has published its ‘roadmap’ for implementing its provisions. If you have heard me speak on this subject … Continue reading
Fire and Rehire – can an employer relocate its employees?
[Now updated – see below] In the last few months I’ve been going around the country talking to people about the Employment Rights Bill and what it means for employers. One of the central points I have been making is … Continue reading
Guaranteed hours under the Employment Rights Bill – dealing with seasonal work.
Under the right to guaranteed hours set out in clause 1 of the Employment Rights Bill an employer will have to make an offer to a worker of guaranteed hours based on some assessment of the hours that the worker … Continue reading
Will ‘Good’ Employers Welcome the Employment Rights Bill?
The Employment Rights Bill has now passed its House of Commons stages and is headed for the House of Lords. It has roughly doubled in size since it was first introduced in October 2024. Most of the amendments made are … Continue reading
Are pubs about to ban people from talking about ‘transgender rights’?
Honestly my heart sank when I saw this morning’s front page of the Times: I don’t think that pubs are going to do this – but let’s look at what the Times is saying: Pubs could ban customers from speaking … Continue reading
More thoughts on “Fire and Rehire”
Back in November I wrote about the Employment Rights Bill and its proposal to ban the practice of ‘fire and rehire’. I suggested that the very narrow ‘financial difficulties’ exception that the Bill currently contains would present real problems for … Continue reading
Implementing the Employment Rights Bill
The employment law issue that will dominate 2025 is the Employment Rights Bill – which at some stage in the Spring or summer will become the Employment Rights Act 1996. The Bill is huge, both literally and in terms of … Continue reading
Guaranteed hours – who will qualify?
How many hours do you have to work before you are no longer on a ‘low hours’ contract? The question is crucial to the right to guaranteed hours contained in the Employment Rights Bill currently at the Committee Stage in … Continue reading
Employment Rights Bill – increasing time limits for tribunal claims
The Employment Rights Bill is about to reach the stage when the Commons Committee considers proposed amendents. Some of these are proposed by the opposition but I don’t think we need to spend too much time on them. They are … Continue reading
Defining ‘sex’ in the Equality Act
[Added: April 2025Well the Supreme Court Decision is out and they have allowed the appeal and ruled that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, sex is determined biologically and not be reference to a Gender Recognition Certificate. I’m … Continue reading
A Range of Reasonable Responses 