Employment Law Updates

In July 2018, the Women and Equalities Committee of the House of Commons published a report on sexual harassment in the workplace, which sought to highlight the issue of harassment, in an attempt to bring it out into the open as a matter to be discussed, with a view to eventually prevent it from happening at all.

Are you an employer who is considering taking on an unpaid intern? There are a number of challenges for employers to ensure that the individual being hired is not classified as an employee or a worker who is entitled to several employment law rights, including remuneration or paid holiday.

How would you feel if your employer was the largest employer in town and it chose to close down its site? What would you do if you were employed by the same employer for the last 10, 20 or 30 years and do not remember what applying for jobs feels like? What would be your chances to secure a new job and does it mean you would have to relocate in order to find a new job?

James Trevor Oliver MBE, more commonly known as Jamie Oliver, has spent over two decades in the public eye as a celebrity chef and best selling author. Last month 22 out of his 25 Jamie’s Italian restaurants collapsed, leaving over 1300 people facing redundancy. What went wrong for Jamie’s Italian empire?

Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group has recently been in the news as high-street retailers continue to struggle to remain relevant. In case you didn’t know, the Arcadia Group is the umbrella corporation behind many of the High Street’s big names, such as Top Shop, Top Man, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Burton and BHS to name but a few.