A recent case called Base Childrenswear v Nadia Otshudi looked at the issue of race discrimination in the workplace. The background of the case: Base Childresnwear sell children’s clothes. Ms Otshudi was employed by them as a photographer, taking pictures of clothes...
With the ever-growing use of social media, employees’ behaviour on social media is increasingly causing employers problems. In this post, we look at how employers can tackle such behaviour. Employees’ rights To understand how to tackle behaviour like this, we first...
A survey conducted by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of around 2,700 workers found that 30% of flexible working requests were turned down by employers. 58% of workers (and 68% of workers in “working class roles”) believed flexible working was...
When you hold a meeting with an employee, does it cross your mind that they may be recording it? If not, it should do. If you go back a few years, for an employee to record a meeting would have been fairly obvious. The size of the device needed would have given them...
With the most common forms of disability discrimination, an employer cannot discriminate unless they knew, or should have known, about the employee’s disability.However, a recent case has raised an interesting question. If the employer did not know of the employee’s...
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