Author Archives: Darren Newman
Fire and Rehire – Unintended Consequences of the Employment Rights Bill
The Employment Rights Bill is about to enter into the part of the Parliamentary process where the Government will consider amendments. This is not something it needs to do in order to ensure the Bill is passed. With a huge … Continue reading
The Employment Rights Bill – Closing the ‘Woolworths’ Loophole
In my last post I was trying to make sense of 11 pages of densely-worded text in the Employment Rights Bill. For this post I have set myself the easier task of explaining the implications of removing just three words … Continue reading
The Employment Rights Bill – The Right to Guaranteed Hours
The right to guaranteed hours is the mechanism the Government has chosen to ‘ban’ zero hours contracts. It takes up 11 densely worded pages in the Employment Rights Bill inserting a new Chapter into Part 2A of the Employment Rights … Continue reading
The Employment Rights Bill – Unfair Dismissal as a Day-One Right.
One of the features of the Employment Rights Bill that has attracted particular attention is the abolition of the qualifying period for unfair dismissal making it a day-one right (see Schedule 2 of the Bill). This is something that a … Continue reading
Fire and Rehire under the Employment Rights Bill
There is a lot to say about the Employment Rights Bill which was introduced in Parliament earlier today. In many ways it really is transformative – its also long and detailed. My plan is not to write one big summary of … Continue reading
Labour’s new right to a four-day week
So a story seems to have exploded over the the course of the day that the Government is going to give workers the right to work a compressed four-day week. They aren’t. But they might be about to strengthen a … Continue reading
The New Duty to Prevent Sexual Harassment
I have a problem with the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023. It’s a rubbish name for a statute to begin with. But I also think it does something fundamentally undesirable. Bear with me, though, because it … Continue reading
Should the BBC have sacked Huw Edwards before he resigned?
Was the BBC wrong to keep Huw Edwards employed despite knowing that he had been arrested on such serious charges? Looking at the timeline I think it’s difficult to criticise their approach. Most large public sector organisations would have done … Continue reading
A Range of Reasonable Responses 