New Years resolutions about staffing and employment issues – start the process now

In our experience, the lead up to Christmas and the New Year is when employers often look ahead to their staffing needs for the upcoming year. Often, it is at this time that employers identify employment issues.

It might be an employee who’s not performing, it may be a need to run a different staffing structure, or an employee may have done something wrong. The reality is that processes are needed to deal with all […]

By | November 10th, 2017 ||

Dr Michalak and the GMC – Individuals can bring discrimination claims against their regulators in the Employment Tribunal

In the case of Dr Ewa Michalak, the Supreme Court has held that an individual can bring a discrimination claim against the General Medical Council (GMC) in the Employment Tribunal.

This potentially opens the floodgates for discrimination claims against other ‘qualification bodies’ which confer, renew or extend an ‘authorisation, qualification, recognition, registration, enrolment, approval or certification, which is needed for, or facilitates engagement in, a particular trade or profession.’
General Medical Council (GMC)
The GMC is a […]

By | November 9th, 2017 ||

EU: Employment News For November 2017

The new Data Protection Bill, which will replace the current Data Protection Act 1998, has had its first parliamentary reading and is due to have its second reading on 10 October 2017. The Bill will bring the European General Data Protection Regulation standards into national law, ensuring that the UK’s data protection regime is in line with EU standards after Brexit. There will be more control for individuals over the use of their personal […]

By | November 9th, 2017 ||