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Latest News in Employment UK

  • February 26, 2026

    Videography Biz Must Pay £74K After Firing Pregnant Manager

    A tribunal has ordered a British video production company to pay a former manager £73,500 ($99,300) for sacking her shortly after learning that she was pregnant.

  • February 26, 2026

    Gov't Actuary's Department Launches New Pensions Group

    The Government Actuary's Department has established a new public sector defined contribution pension scheme working group to strengthen governance and improve knowledge-sharing across public sector retirement plans, the department said Wednesday.

  • February 26, 2026

    CMA Advocates Ban On Noncompetes For Low-Paid Workers

    The U.K.'s competition watchdog has told the government that it should ban noncompete clauses for employees earning below a certain threshold, but stopped short of calling for a blanket ban.  

  • February 26, 2026

    Disability Case Appeal May Heighten Employer Scrutiny

    Employers may be forced to think more carefully about their assessment of workers' disability status under the Equality Act depending on the outcome of an appeal in a landmark case between Accenture and a former employee with endometriosis, experts say.

  • February 26, 2026

    Tribunal Can't Delay Ruling On Tesco Equal Pay Job Analysis

    An employment tribunal must rehear arguments about the effort required to perform different roles at Tesco after an appellate tribunal ruled Thursday that a judge was wrong to avoid dealing with the issue in the long-running equal pay claim.

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Areas of Coverage

  • LITIGATION
  • U.K. employment tribunals, including the Employment Appeal Tribunal, including matters involving discrimination, wrongful dismissal, redundancy and whistleblowing
  • Cases in the High Court involving employment disputes such as breach of contract, employee poaching, noncompete clauses, theft of trade secrets or confidential information, employee classification, non-disclosure agreements and union activity
  • Disputes over pension schemes
  • Criminal enforcement actions brought by The Pensions Regulator, the Health and Safety Executive or against directors by The Insolvency Service
  • Any disputes relating to workers' rights stemming from Brexit between the EU and U.K.
  • HMRC enforcement efforts connected to employment income tax
  • AGENCIES
  • The Pensions Regulator
  • The Health and Safety Executive
  • Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
  • Equity and Human Rights Commission
  • The Director of Labour Market Enforcement
  • Acas (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • Agency actions and rulings
  • Gender pay gap reporting
  • Industrial action
  • Legislation or regulation governing employment rights, national minimum wage, employment relations, maternity and parental leave, agency work regulations, health and safety at work

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  • Employment lawyers at top law firms
  • Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune Global 500+ companies
  • Human resources professionals
  • Trade unions
  • Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
  • Policymakers at government agencies
  • Judges and court staff across the UK