The recent media controversy about Gordon Brown’s alleged bullying of staff at Number 10 Downing Street has thrown the spotlight on an important issue for every employer: how to deal with bullying in the workplace? The two main forms of workplace abuse are harassment and bullying. Generally... read more

It has recently been revealed that a serial litigant is believed to have earned thousand of pounds by submitting age discrimination claims against companies who placed advertisements using the words ‘school leaver’ or ‘recent graduate’. The serial litigant did not apply for the jobs he simply... read more

The employment appeal tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that an individual's belief in man-made climate change and the existence of a moral duty to live in a way that mitigates or avoids it, was capable of being a "philosophical belief" for the purposes of... read more

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has issued its judgment on the case of Coleman v Attridge regarding the issue of associative discrimination. The EAT has upheld the tribunal's decision to reinterpret the Disability Discrimination Act to prevent discrimination and harassment on the grounds of... read more

Yvette Cooper, work and pensions secretary has announced that she wants employers to offer better part-time jobs. In addition, job applicants would be able to request flexible working when applying for a job, rather than have to wait 6 months to make such an application, as provided for in... read more

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (the EHRC) are looking into the situation which arose at Milton Keynes Hospital in Buckinghamshire. It is reported that a mother about to undergo a caesarean section objected to an ethnic minority member of staff being present at the birth of her child.... read more

There have been comments recently that increasing rights and additional legislative protection for women are having the opposite result to the one wanted. In a bid to address inequality the government has improved maternity rights i.e. by ensuring women are entitled to the same benefits whilst... read more

The Government has launched a further consultation on draft regulations to implement the EU Agency Workers Directive into domestic law.  The Government is said to be 'committed' to implementing the legislation by the end of this Parliament with a view to the law coming into force in... read more

A recent sting operation conducted by researchers at the National Centre for Social Research (NCSR) on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has uncovered widespread bias amongst employers against ethnic names.  NCSR researchers sent out nearly 3,000 job applications under... read more

Fans of the BBC’s flagship Saturday night show, Strictly Come Dancing, will recognise Anton Du Beke as one of the original ‘stars’ of the show; indeed, it has even been suggested that he would be the natural replacement for Bruce Forsyth as host of the show.  However, anti-racism... read more