Cinema chain Everyman is the latest of several companies to announce that it is moving staff off zero-hours contracts. It has promised to offer guaranteed monthly hours to hundreds of staff by the end of next year. Everyman’s chief executive Crispin Lilly said after the announcement: “Our staff have never had problems with zero hours…
With more and more women on maternity leave complaining about the treatment they receive from their employers, it is important that employers know what legal rights employees have before, during and after maternity leave. In this article, we summarise the law on maternity. A recent report by Citizens Advice says that the number of women…
The decision of the UK to leave the EU raises a host of questions about employment law. At the moment it is impossible to say what form the UK’s relationship with the EU will take post-Brexit and, as a result, how UK employment law will change. What is clear is that despite the referendum result,…
Using email at work may not be as private as you think. In the recent landmark case of Bărbulescu v Romania, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that employers were entitled to monitor the private messages sent by their employees during work time and such monitoring did not violate the employees’ right to privacy. This…
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