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I’m tremendously pleased to host this guest post from Anya Palmer a barrister from Old Square Chambers. As a leading employment law practitioner Anya is ideally placed to look at the how the press reports the workload of Employment Tribunals … Continue reading →

The brief I’ve given myself in this blog is to look at employment law issues in the news and try to explain ‘what is really going on’. When it’s just a matter of the Telegraph or Daily Mail getting the … Continue reading →

So I pop off on holiday (lovely, thanks) for a few weeks and all sorts of employment law starts happening. Surely people could have waited until I got back? I have a lot of catching up to do on the … Continue reading →

One of the luxuries of self employment is taking long holidays without having to clear it with a manger first. I’m off on my travels now until the end of May and so won’t be likely to update this blog … Continue reading →

Today’s employment law issue is  actually a quite straightforward mistake made in this column about red tape and recruitment. The Daily Telegraph is essentially writing about the administrative difficulties around the funding of apprenticeships. This is a subject about which … Continue reading →

The thing that I like about employment law most is that its based on stories. Stuff happens in employment law cases that is simply more interesting (to my mind) than the stories that revolve around tax law or conveyancing. Inevitably … Continue reading →

This week the big employment law news story has been the Court of Appeal decision in Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust. The issue in this case was whether the employer was justified in giving an employee notice of redundancy … Continue reading →

Like many people in the employment law world I get frustrated when I read about my subject in the mainstream media. Nearly everything I read is simply wrong! Partly the problem is that the subject is quite technical and the … Continue reading →