Employment UK

  • August 22, 2025

    UK State Pension Could Rise 4.6% Under Triple Lock Pledge

    The state pension could rise by £551 ($746) a year for Britons in 2026 under the so-called triple lock, piling additional costs on taxpayers, a consultancy warned on Friday. 

  • August 22, 2025

    Police Officers Win Bid To Revive GDPR Breach Claims

    A group of police officers can revive their group action over their annual pension statements being posted to the wrong address, as an appeals court found on Friday that the error had breached their rights to privacy.

  • August 22, 2025

    Solicitor Cleared Of Misconduct Over Misleading Clients

    A solicitor accused of misleading clients for months about the outcome of a hearing he had lost was cleared of misconduct by a tribunal Friday.

  • August 21, 2025

    Law Firms Underprepared For New Pay Gap Reporting Rules

    Law firms are ahead when it comes to reporting data on their ethnicity pay gaps — but they might not be prepared for new measures that the government is planning to introduce, experts warn.

  • August 21, 2025

    Recycling Worker Wins £17K For Unfair Dismissal While Sick

    An employment tribunal has ordered a Scottish council to pay £17,244 to a staffer it unfairly fired from a waste-recycling site after he was off sick with depression for 174 days because the council botched the dismissal process.

  • August 21, 2025

    'Exceptionally Lucky' Fake London Solicitor Avoids Prison

    An unlicensed legal professional who admitted to impersonating a practicing solicitor was handed a suspended sentence on Thursday after a London judge said he was "exceptionally lucky" the prisons were in crisis.

  • August 21, 2025

    Solicitor Denies Intentionally Misleading Clients About Case

    A solicitor accused of misleading clients for months about the outcome of a hearing he had lost told a tribunal on Thursday that he genuinely believed there had not been a final decision on the case.

  • August 21, 2025

    Injury Firm Seeks Guidance On Payouts For Trans Claimants

    A personal injury law firm called for sector-wide guidance on compensation calculations for transgender claimants on Thursday, in order to prevent inequalities in payouts following the U.K. Supreme Court's controversial ruling on the definition of sex.

  • August 21, 2025

    Health Insurance Uptick Fuels £123M Rise In UK Tax Revenue

    Mounting pressure on Britain's public healthcare system is spurring the uptake of health insurance products and boosting government tax revenue, financial services consultancy Broadstone said Thursday.

  • August 20, 2025

    Female Leadership May Narrow Pay Gaps But Isn't A Cure-All

    Law firms led by women might be more likely to pursue initiatives that help to close the gender pay gap and encourage junior females to strive for partnership — but this is not a solution for pay inequality.

  • August 20, 2025

    Ex-Meta Worker Can't Keep Job During Whistleblowing Claim

    A former product manager at Meta who says he was sacked for blowing the whistle on the technology giant allegedly inflating its advertising metrics failed to convince a tribunal on Wednesday to reinstate him pending his claim being determined.

  • August 20, 2025

    Manager Harassed For LinkedIn Post On Islamophobia

    A Muslim divisional manager has proved that the recruitment agency for which he works harassed him by forcing him to remove a LinkedIn post in which he replied to a message about Islamic grooming gangs or "face consequences."

  • August 20, 2025

    Marine Insurers Warned Of Legal Risks From Modern Slavery

    Insurers risk legal and reputational damage if they offer cover for shipping companies that rely on modern slavery in their business models, a trade body for the sector warned.

  • August 20, 2025

    Fewer Pension Plans Granting Inflation-Driven Increases

    Fewer U.K. pension plans are giving their members discretionary increases in retirement payments, with inflation lower and changes anticipated in how surpluses will be used, Aon PLC said Wednesday.

  • August 20, 2025

    Eversheds, LCP Guide £700M Pension Deal For Engineer ABB

    The British subsidiary of global electrical engineering giant ABB Group has agreed a full-scheme pension program buy-in worth £700 million ($945 million) with Aviva PLC, the insurer said Wednesday.

  • August 19, 2025

    Law Firms Silent As They Struggle To Close Partner Pay Gap

    Half of the U.K.'s highest-earning law firms don't report on gender pay gaps among their partners, despite calls for them to do so since the regime was established eight years ago.

  • August 19, 2025

    Court Upholds Ban On Education Charity Over Plagiarism

    A London court has upheld a decision by a company that awards qualifications to suspend an educational charity from delivering its qualifications for 10 years after the company found numerous cases of plagiarism in students' work.

  • August 19, 2025

    Athora, Brookfield Deals May Spur UK Pension Risk Appetite

    A wave of consolidation among life insurers may mean deeper pockets to meet demand in the pension risk transfer market, a broker said Tuesday.

  • August 19, 2025

    Recruiter's CEO Fired Over Clashes With Bosses Wins £111K

    An employment tribunal has ordered a healthcare recruiter to pay £111,663 ($151,000) to its former chief executive after admitting that it had unfairly dismissed him just two weeks before a liability hearing over poor financial performance.

  • August 19, 2025

    Ex-Vodka Co. Exec Can't Enforce £2M Payout In High Court

    A London court has ruled that a vodka company's former executive must restart his quest to cash in a £2 million ($2.7 million) tribunal payout after he breached "straightforward" rules by asking the wrong court to enforce the ruling.

  • August 19, 2025

    Pensions Watchdog Says £80M Returned To Scam Victims

    More than £80 million ($108 million) has been paid out to pension savers who fell victim to scams, after a landmark court victory paved the way for compensation, the U.K. retirement savings watchdog said Tuesday.

  • August 18, 2025

    Opaque Bonus Policies Widen Gender Pay Gap In Law Firms

    Opaque bonus processes and a tendency for women to specialize in lower-earning practices are hampering progress by law firms as they seek to close the more than 31% bonus pay-gap, experts say.

  • August 18, 2025

    Law360's 2025 UK Law Firm Gender Pay Gap Report

    Law360 has collected and analyzed the gender pay-gap reports from more than 100 top law firms in the U.K. and compiled that data into a new tool, revealing that male employees typically earned 26% more than their female colleagues in 2024. Check out our analysis of the findings in the coverage below.

  • August 18, 2025

    Asda Loses Bid To Stall Unionizing At UK Depots

    Asda Stores Ltd. lost its challenge on Monday to a bid by trade union GMB to form a collective bargaining unit at its depots, as an adjudicator ruled that the retail giant's concerns about manipulation of supporter numbers are immaterial.

  • August 18, 2025

    Diarra To Restart €65M Claim Against FIFA Transfer Rules

    French former professional football player Lassana Diarra said Monday that he will relaunch his €65 million ($75.8 million) claim against the game's world governing body and the Belgian association over allegedly unlawful and restrictive no-poaching agreements.

Expert Analysis

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents

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    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • Crypto As A Coin Of The Corporate Realm: The Pros And Cons

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    The broadened range of crypto-assets opens up new possibilities for employers looking to recruit, incentivize and retain employees through the use of crypto, but certain risks must be addressed, say Dan Sharman and Sunny Mangatt at Shoosmiths.

  • Employer Tips For Handling Data Subject Access Requests

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    As employers face numerous employee data-subject access requests — and the attendant risks of complaints to the Information Commissioner's Office — issues such as managing deadlines and sifting through data make compliance more difficult, highlighting the importance of efficient internal processes and clear communication when responding to a request, say Gwynneth Tan and Amy Leech at Shoosmiths.

  • Employer Tips For Navigating The Growing 'Workcation' Trend

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    While the trend of working remotely from a holiday property may be attractive to workers, employers must set clear guidelines to help employees successfully combine work and leisure without implicating legal risks or compromising business efficacy, says Amy Leech at Shoosmiths.

  • Opinion

    UK Whistleblowers Flock To The US For Good Reason

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    The U.K. Serious Fraud Office director recently brought renewed attention to the differences between the U.K. and U.S. whistleblower regimes — differences that may make reporting to U.S. agencies a better and safer option for U.K. whistleblowers, and show why U.K. whistleblower laws need to be improved, say Benjamin Calitri and Kate Reeves at Kohn Kohn.

  • No-Poach Agreements Face Greater EU Antitrust Scrutiny

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    EU competition authorities are increasingly viewing employer no-poach agreements as anti-competitive and an enforcement priority, demonstrating that such provisions are no longer without risk in Europe, and proving the importance of understanding EU antitrust law concerns and implications, says Robert Hardy at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Water Special Administration Changes May Affect Creditors

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    Following the publication of new legislation, changes are afoot to the U.K. government's statutory regime governing special administrations for regulated water companies — and one consequence may be that some creditors of such companies will find themselves in a more uncertain position, say Helena Clarke and Charlotte Møller at Squire Patton.

  • Opinion

    Labour Should Reconsider Its Discrimination Law Plans

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    While the Labour Party's recent proposals allowing equal pay claims based on ethnicity and disability, and introducing dual discrimination, have laudable intentions and bring some advantages, they are not the right path forward as the changes complicate the discrimination claim process for employees, say Colin Leckey and Tarun Tawakley at Lewis Silkin.

  • Tracing The History Of LGBTQ+ Rights In The Workplace

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    Pride History month is a timely reminder of how recent developments have shaped LGBTQ+ employees' rights in the workplace today, and what employers can do to ensure that employees are protected from discrimination, including creating safe workplace cultures and promoting allyship, say Caitlin Farrar and Jessica Bennett at Farrer.

  • Ruling In FCA Case Offers Tips On Flexible Work Requests

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    In Wilson v. Financial Conduct Authority, the Employment Tribunal recently found that the regulator's rejection of a remote work request was justified, highlighting for employers factors that affect flexible work request outcomes, while emphasizing that individual inquiries should be considered on the specific facts, say Frances Rollin, Ella Tunnell and Kerry Garcia at Stevens & Bolton.

  • Breaking Down The New UK Pension Funding Regs

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    Recently published U.K. pension regulations, proposing major changes to funding and investing in defined benefit pension schemes, raise implementation considerations for trustees, including the importance of the employer covenant, say Charles Magoffin and Elizabeth Bullock at Freshfields.

  • Pension Scheme Ruling Elucidates Conversion Issues

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    In Newell Trustees v. Newell Rubbermaid UK Services, the High Court recently upheld a pension plan's conversion of final salary benefits to money purchase benefits, a welcome conclusion that considered several notable issues, such as how to construe pension deeds and when contracts made outside scheme rules can determine benefits, say Ian Gordon and Jamie Barnett at Gowling.

  • Workplace Bullying Bill Implications For Employers And Execs

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    In light of the upcoming parliamentary debate on the Bullying and Respect at Work Bill, organizations should consider how a statutory definition of "workplace bullying" could increase employee complaints and how senior executives would be implicated if the bill becomes law, says Sophie Rothwell at Charles Russell.

  • Amazon's €32M Data Protection Fine Acts As Employer Caveat

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    The recent decision by French data privacy regulator CNIL to fine Amazon for excessive surveillance of its workers opens up a raft of potential employment law, data protection and breach of contract issues, and offers a clear warning that companies need coherent justification for monitoring employees, say Robert Smedley and William Richmond-Coggan at Freeths.

  • Employers Can 'Waive' Goodbye To Unknown Future Claims

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    The Scottish Court of Session's recent decision in Bathgate v. Technip Singapore, holding that unknown future claims in a qualifying settlement agreement can be waived, offers employers the possibility of achieving a clean break when terminating employees and provides practitioners with much-needed guidance on how future cases might be dealt with in court, says Natasha Nichols at Farrer & Co.

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