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Latest News in Employment UK

  • June 26, 2026

    Security Guard Fired For Allowing Police On Site Wins £19K

    An employment tribunal has ordered a security company to pay £19,372 ($26,000) to a guard it unfairly fired after 26 years' service over a client's unverified complaints that the worker breached fire procedures when smoke was detected on the client's site. 

  • June 26, 2026

    Professor Must Pay University £20K Over Sex Bias Claim

    A professor must pay £20,000 ($26,000) to the University of Birmingham after an employment tribunal rejected his sex discrimination claim over the Russell Group university's handling of his complaint that a female colleague sexually assaulted him.

  • June 26, 2026

    UK-China Charity Can't Get Docs From Tech CEO's $2M Case

    An employment tribunal has rejected a China-U.K. think tank's bid to obtain documents from a chief executive's $2 million whistleblowing case so it can investigate the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.

  • June 26, 2026

    Pensions Body Calls For Auto Enrollment Increase To 12%

    An influential retirement savings trade group said the minimum pension contribution level under automatic enrollment should rise from 8% to 12% to address growing concerns that Britons are not saving enough.

  • June 26, 2026

    Trade Group Calls For Pension Tax Breaks Tied To Investment

    Members of pension plans should receive billions of pounds in government tax relief only if more of their retirement savings are invested in U.K. companies to revive economic growth, a trade group has said.

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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