Tag: Employment Rights
about 1 year ago
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'Cult-like' office saw employees work '15-hour shifts and not even get paid'

Generation's workers were not staff, but 'self-employed contractors' its under-fire boss says after claims people wer...

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almost 2 years ago
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Cleaning company struggling to find workers even after raising salary to £4,400 a month

Even after raising the salary, the manager of cleaning company Absolute Domestics based in Sydney, Australia, says sh...

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almost 2 years ago
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Paramedic suspended after calling colleague 'fat porker' says he has free speech

Paul Winfield bullied his fellow ambulance worker about her weight and even gave her a pair of large men's trousers a...

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about 2 years ago
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Long Covid: Staff suffering long-term coronavirus symptoms need more help to carry on working

Companies are failing staff suffering from long Covid leaving them open to legal action as the condition could amount...

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about 2 years ago
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Carlsberg boss sacked for having beers with eight friends in brewery during lockdown

Martin Entwistle invited eight friends for beers in the tap room in the summer of 2020. He was sacked for behaviour '...

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about 2 years ago
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Employees told they can work from home for good but only if they take a 20% pay cut

A law firm with more than 1,000 employees has said staff in Paris, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea will ...

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about 2 years ago
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Restaurant boss wins £21,000 in damages after being forced to work in 111-degree heat

Alice Bailey was told to 'get used to it' after she protested to bosses about the London-based restaurant's broken ai...

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about 2 years ago
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Pregnant woman branded 'useless' at work wins £25,000 discrimination case

Sandy Croly refused to pick up 'much bigger' Kelly Ann Smith because she was worried about her unborn baby - before b...

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about 2 years ago
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Four-day week trial to go ahead in UK from June - see if your employer is taking part

In total, 60 firms with 3,000 staff have signed up to take part in a pilot four-day week project here in Britain - gi...

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about 2 years ago
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Your employer's sick pay rate is changing this week - see who qualifies for it

While many employers will have their own guidelines on how - and what - they pay you, there are statutory sick pay la...

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about 2 years ago
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Postie, 59, sacked for sticking chewing gum on garden gate wins £17,000 compensation

Graham Harvey had a clean work record having been a postman for more than 25 years, but was sacked for his first misd...

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about 2 years ago
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P&O may face unlimited fine and lose state contracts after ‘appalling’ sacking of 800 staff

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says company might have committed a criminal offence and has “lost the trust of the...

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about 2 years ago
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Wilko U-turns after Mirror investigation finds 20000 staff were told to work with Covid

Over 20,000 employees at Wilko were issued a memo stating that they should go to work if they have Covid but are asym...

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about 2 years ago
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Wilko tells all staff to go to work even if they test positive for Covid under changes

The new Wilko rules came into force on February 24 in England, and four days later in Wales. The policy will apply in...

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about 2 years ago
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Beautician who was fired 11 days after announcing pregnancy wins tribunal case

Employee Agata Plewa was fired 'without warning' less than two weeks after telling her boss she was expecting - despi...

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about 2 years ago
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Thousands of Asda workers preparing to strike in row over pay - affecting all stores

Almost 70% of the GMB union’s 8,000 members within Asda’s distribution network, which employs 12,000 in total, have v...

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over 2 years ago
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Asda worker sues for £200,000 after pallet accident left him with a shorter leg

Former employee Steve Drew is seeking £200,000 in damages after tripping over a pallet while bringing in a 'stack of ...

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over 2 years ago
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Greggs driver suing bakery chain for racism after colleague compared working to slavery

Mr Richardson-Cuffe, who has raised a discrimination claim against Greggs, told an employment tribunal that he was tr...

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over 2 years ago
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Asda facing New Year strikes as 94% of staff vote in favour of walk outs in pay war

The dispute was sparked after Big 4 grocer failed to “come clean” and “disclose” if it is holding back pay rises for ...

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over 2 years ago
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Women wrongly denied more than £1million in maternity pay this year - your rights

Maternity Action said many new mothers are losing out on income, with the charity recovering more than £1million for ...

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over 2 years ago
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Shop worker wins £10,500 payout after boss 'fired her for being pregnant'

Joanna Kusmierek was dismissed despite showing her bosses three sick notes from her GP who had deemed her unfit to wo...

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over 2 years ago
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Asda facing strike threat in pay rise row amid fears of Christmas shortages

The GMB said it was launching a consultative ballot - due to close on December 20 - over a pay increase for distribut...

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over 2 years ago
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'Standing up for yourself at work isn't easy, but we need more people like Bryony Frost'

Horse racing is under the microscope this week, writes Darren Lewis, but you can't stamp out bad behaviour if people ...

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over 2 years ago
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Tesco Christmas delivery threat as 1,000 workers to strike days before Christmas

Workers at the Didcot and Doncaster sites will stage industrial action for 48 hours from 6am on December 16, followed...

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over 2 years ago
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Tesco workers told they'll lose £500 Covid bonus if they go on strike for fairer pay

The row is centred around workers being given a “decent pay rise” to help cope with increased living costs being caus...

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over 2 years ago
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UK bank introduces four-day working week for all 430 staff - without cutting pay

Those who sign up to the voluntary working arrangements - which is available to all 430 staff - will work longer hour...

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over 2 years ago
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More than 300,000 workers to get a £9.90 an hour pay rise as Real Living Wage goes up

Almost 9,000 employers throughout the country have signed up to the policy - including Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon Ho...

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over 2 years ago
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Weetabix workers to walk-out over 'fire and rehire' claims at two UK factories

Workers are stepping up industrial action at two Weetabix factories in a dispute over pay and conditions with union U...

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over 2 years ago
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IT worker who was 'humiliated' for being disabled wins discrimination case

Disabled IT manager Andrew Lawton won a discrimination claim after his boss said he was too 'slow' in evacuating the ...

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over 2 years ago
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Office worker awarded £40,000 in damages after being sacked on maternity leave

Mother Anastassia Rodin was left unable to feed her newborn baby and struggling to manage her mental health after bei...

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over 2 years ago
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New law will give workers the right to request to work from home from day one

Under current rules, employees cannot request a hybrid working arrangement until six months into a job, however staff...

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over 2 years ago
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NHS worker wins £10,000 after colleague checked private records to verify pregnancy

NHS nurse Julia Walker worked at South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in North Yorkshire in 2019, when she announ...

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almost 3 years ago
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Woman who complained she 'works too much' awarded £23,000 payout from boss

Employee Helen McMahon told her employer she felt "stressed" because she was working more than 48 hours a week - howe...

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almost 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Working from home unlikely to become a legal right

Members of the Flexible Working Taskforce did call for employment law to be strengthened to make the work-life balanc...

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almost 3 years ago
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B&M pays £5,000 to worker who says he was harassed because of disability

Harvey Spence alleges he was excluded from conversations, subjected to derogatory remarks, and constantly told that n...

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almost 3 years ago
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Deliveroo demand rockets as it cashes in £148million of orders in six months

Online takeaway giant Deliveroo has seen a wave of big UK investors say they would snub the share sale launching on W...

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almost 3 years ago
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Mum wins £23,000 payout after being demoted while caring for premature baby

Dr Katie Lidster, 38, had worked for her employer for seven years when she went on maternity leave to have her daught...

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almost 3 years ago
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Woman wins £10,000 payout after bosses order her to speak English at work

Albina Sokolova was disciplined because she admitted speaking in her native tongue with other Eastern European worker...

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almost 3 years ago
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Gardener wins £46,000 payout for being denied job because 'she's a woman'

An ex-gardener at Sir Winston Churchill's former home has described how the National Trust "completely broke [her] sp...

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