Employment UK

  • June 10, 2025

    Gay Mexican Chef Harassed With Deportation Threats

    An employment tribunal has ruled that a British restaurant owner harassed a gay Mexican chef by stereotyping him as unreliable and threatening to tell the Home Office that he was sexually harassing colleagues.

  • June 10, 2025

    J&J Spinoff Had 'Shoddy' Process But Didn't Discriminate

    Johnson & Johnson spinoff Kenvue did not discriminate against a Black manager when it overlooked him for a promotion, even though the process was a "sham," a tribunal said in a ruling released Tuesday.

  • June 09, 2025

    Physiotherapist Wins £20K After Boss Slashed Working Hours

    A physiotherapist has won £20,000 ($27,100) after convincing a tribunal that his former company consistently failed to meet his contractual entitlement to 37.5 hours of paid work per week.

  • June 09, 2025

    Investment Biz CEO Hit For £2.8M Over Exec's Drinks Loan

    A former executive at a U.S. subsidiary of a London investment fund is suing the firm and its founder for about $3 million after they allegedly failed to repay a short-term loan to cover the costs of the company's investment in a drinks company.

  • June 09, 2025

    Ex-Commerzbank Analyst Denies Faking Sex Assault Claims

    A former Commerzbank analyst on Monday fought claims that he lied to a court by making false sexual assault allegations in his failed harassment case against the bank, telling a London court he was being truthful.

  • June 09, 2025

    Trans Worker's Claim Over Missed Deadline Gets Tossed

    An employment tribunal has thrown out a transgender woman's claim against the justice secretary after ruling that she had missed the deadline to bring her case.

  • June 09, 2025

    Phoenix Group Denies Cutting Ex-SunLife CEO's Pay By £9M

    Insurance business Phoenix has denied short-changing the former chief executive of its SunLife subsidiary by £8.9 million ($12.1 million), telling a London court that his "extremely generous" £15.4 million payout was fair.

  • June 06, 2025

    Chancery Pauses Meta Privacy Suit For EU, Ireland Actions

    A Delaware court on Friday paused a pension fund stockholder suit seeking documents on data privacy violations made by Meta Platforms Inc. that led to a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) fine from European authorities.

  • June 06, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    The past week in London has seen MGM and the owners of the "Addams Family" trademark sue a private equity firm, two Cambridge colleges file for injunctions against Pro-Palestine student protest groups and a former NBA player brings a claim against Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

  • June 06, 2025

    Muslim Ex-Cop Loses 'Snog, Marry, Avoid' Bias Claim

    An employment tribunal has ruled that Derbyshire Police didn't harass a former police constable when colleagues included him in a game of "snog, marry, avoid" because the inappropriate questions weren't linked to his Asian ethnicity or Muslim beliefs. 

  • June 06, 2025

    Network Rail Worker Wins 2nd Shot At Disability Bias Claim

    A Network Rail worker who struggled to navigate a complex tribunal process and missed significant filing deadlines won extra time on Friday to appeal after a tribunal acknowledged his mental health challenges and evolving standards for handling late appeals.

  • June 06, 2025

    Darts Champ Banned As Director Over Unpaid £450K Tax Bill

    A former darts world champion has been banned from running companies for five years after his business failed to pay more than £450,000 ($610,000) in tax, the Insolvency Service has revealed.

  • June 06, 2025

    Condé Nast Denies Pic Editor's Race Discrimination Claims

    Magazine giant Condé Nast denied allegations of racial discrimination and harassment on Friday, arguing that complaints by a former Wired magazine photo editor of micromanagement and alleged aggressive behavior by security staff were not connected to her race or sex.

  • June 06, 2025

    UK To Launch Delayed Second Phase Of Pensions Review

    The government said it will soon launch the delayed second phase of its pensions review, in what experts hope could be the biggest shakeup for the sector for 20 years.

  • June 06, 2025

    UK Pensions Bill To Transform Trustees' Role, Watchdog Says

    Britain's retirement savings watchdog has said it will look to other regulators and governance standards for guidance to ensure that pensions trusteeship is ready for the "transformational" impact of reforms that have recently been announced.

  • June 06, 2025

    UK Floats Legislative Fix For Virgin Media Pensions Case

    The government has said it will push through legislation to deal with the legal fallout for pension trustees from a landmark Court of Appeal ruling in 2024.

  • June 05, 2025

    UK Pension Assets Hit £3.2T Amid Shift To Private Markets

    The total value of U.K. pensions grew by 11% in 2024 to £3.2 trillion ($4.3 trillion), the Pensions Policy Institute has said, noting a movement to private market investment in a "period of transition" in Britain.

  • June 05, 2025

    Wetherspoons Harassed Manager Off Sick For Mental Health

    A Wetherspoons manager won his discrimination and harassment claims against the pub Thursday, with an employment tribunal ruling that he was subject to punishment at work due to his mental health conditions.

  • June 05, 2025

    Former Exec Must Pay £450K From Pension To Settle Debt

    A London judge has ruled a company can access the pension fund of a fired managing director to cover £450,000 ($612,000) he was supposed to pay to settle claims that he poached clients.

  • June 05, 2025

    Caribbean Job Applicant Gets 2nd Shot At Gov't Bias Suit

    A second appellate judge has sent a Caribbean job applicant's race bias claim against the government's health and social care department back to the tribunal after the case was revived by the Court of Appeal.

  • June 05, 2025

    Axiom Staffer Wins Claim Over Dismissals Amid Firm Collapse

    A former employee of Axiom Ince Ltd. has won a tribunal claim over the collapsed firm's failure to carry out a redundancy consultation before mass dismissals, with a judge granting her an unspecified monetary award.

  • June 05, 2025

    Gov't Unveils Landmark Pension Reforms To Boost Savings

    The government has unveiled a raft of pension reforms that it said will dramatically boost the savings of millions of British workers.

  • June 04, 2025

    Most UK Pension Plans Mulling Surplus Use, LCP Says

    Most defined benefit pension plans are either actively considering or already planning to use their retirement plan surplus amid government rule changes, according to consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock.

  • June 04, 2025

    Consultancy Sues Ex-Director For £3.6M Over Client Poaching

    A consulting firm has accused its former director of causing it to lose out on £3.6 million ($4.8 million) in revenue, arguing in a London court that his synced email calendar revealed he had conspired to steal clients.

  • June 04, 2025

    Ex-Amazon Warehouse Worker Scrapes Win Over Health Bias

    Amazon's U.K. branch has dodged most of the disability discrimination allegations brought by a former warehouse worker, with a tribunal finding that his dismissal was justified even though the company committed a misstep in how it handled his extended medical absence.

Expert Analysis

  • Age Bias Cases Illustrate Key Employer Issues On Retirement

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    Recent Employment Tribunal cases demonstrate that age discrimination claims are increasingly on employees' radars, particularly regarding retirement, so employers should be proactive and review their current practices for managing older employees, say Jane Mann and Lucy Sellen at Fox Williams.

  • What The Auto-Enrollment Law Means For UK Workforce

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    In a welcome step to enhance retirement savings, the U.K. government is set to extend the automatic enrollment regime by lowering the eligibility age and reducing the lower qualifying earnings limit, but addressing workers' immediate financial needs remains a challenge, says Beth Brown at Arc Pensions.

  • RSA Insurance Ruling Clarifies Definition Of 'Insured Loss'

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    A London appeals court's recent ruling in Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance v. Tughans, that the insurer must provide coverage for a liability that included the law firm's fees, shows that a claim for the recovery of fees paid to a firm can constitute an insured loss, say James Roberts and Sophia Hanif at Clyde & Co.

  • Key Takeaways From ICO Report On Workforce Monitoring

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    The Information Commissioner's Office recently published guidance on workplace monitoring, highlighting that employers must strike a balance between their business needs and workers' privacy rights to avoid falling afoul of U.K. data protection law requirements, say lawyers at MoFo.

  • Creating A Safe Workplace Goes Beyond DEI Compliance

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    The Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority recently proposed a new diversity and inclusion regulatory framework to combat sexual harassment in the workplace, and companies should take this opportunity to holistically transform their culture to ensure zero tolerance for misconduct, says Vivek Dodd at Skillcast.

  • Bias Claim Highlights Need For Menopause Support Policies

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    The recent U.K. Employment Tribunal case Rooney v. Leicester City Council, concerning a menopause discrimination claim, illustrates the importance of support policies that should feed into an organization's wider diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategies, say Ellie Gelder, Kelly Thomson and Victoria Othen at RPC.

  • UK Case Offers Lessons On Hiring Accommodations

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    The U.K. Employment Appeal Tribunal recently ruled in Aecom v. Mallon that an employer had failed to make reasonable adjustments to an online application for an applicant with a disability, highlighting that this obligation starts from the earliest point of the recruitment process, say Nishma Chudasama and Emily Morrison at SA Law.

  • Firms Should Prepare For New DEI Reporting Requirements

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    While the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority's recent proposals on diversity and inclusion in the financial sector are progressive, implementing reporting requirements will pose data collection and privacy protection challenges for employers, say lawyers at Fieldfisher.

  • Socioeconomic Data Shows Diversity Needed In Legal Sector

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    U.K. solicitors come from the highest socioeconomic backgrounds compared with the wider workforce, and with the case for a greater focus on diversity and inclusion stronger in law than in any other sector, now is the time to challenge the status quo decisions that affect equality and representation, says Nik Miller at the Bridge Group.

  • How Employers Can Support Neurodiversity In The Workplace

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    A recent run of cases emphasize employers' duties to make reasonable adjustments for neurodiverse employees under the Equalities Act, illustrating the importance of investing in staff education and listening to neurodivergent workers to improve recruitment, retention and productivity in the workplace, say Anna Henderson and Tim Leaver at Herbert Smith.

  • Retained EU Law Act Puts Employment Rights Into Question

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    The recent announcement that the equal pay for equal work provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU would not be repealed by the U.K. Retained EU Law Act has created uncertainty as to whether key employment rights will be vulnerable to challenge, say Nick Marshall and Louise Mason at Linklaters.

  • Employers Can Expect More Emphasis On Work Culture Regs

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    The U.K. government has recently backed a package of employment legislation, including an act that granted the right to request a predictable working pattern, reflecting an increased understanding of how workplace culture feeds into hiring decisions and the ability to retain employees, says Christopher Hitchins at Katten.

  • Employer Due Diligence Lessons From Share Scheme Case

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    The Scottish Court of Session recently confirmed in Ponticelli v. Gallagher that the right to participate in a share incentive plan transfers to the transferee, highlighting the importance for transferee employers to conduct comprehensive due diligence when acquiring workforce, including on arrangements outside the employment contract's scope, say lawyers at McDermott.

  • How Insurance Policies Can Cover Generative AI Risks

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    As concerns rise about the new risks that businesses face as a result of generative artificial intelligence tools, such as AI-facilitated hacking and intellectual property infringement, policyholders should look to existing insurance policies to cover losses or damages, says Josianne El Antoury at Covington.

  • 'Right To Disconnect' On The Rise Amid Remote Work Shift

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    Amid the recent shift to remote work, countries are increasingly establishing regulatory frameworks supporting employees' rights to disconnect, which brings advantages for both companies and their workers, say Stefano de Luca Tamajo and Camilla De Simone at Toffoletto De Luca.

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