Employment Rights
Changing shift patterns: your rights
Shift working has been increasing with the advent of extended hours of service seven days... read more
Employment rights
Employment Rights
Pregnant and changing to a more physically demanding role
If you have not told your employer that you do not want to be moved to the restaurant: I... read more
Employment Rights
New manager trying to move me from remote to office-based
Requiring you to work in the office rather than at home could be indirectly... read more
Flexible Working Practices
General Election 2017 and employment law
Parliament has voted to allow an early general election to take place on 8th June 2017,... read more
Employment Rights
Should I get pro rata benefits if I am part time?
The Part Time Workers Regulations are clear that part timers should receive the same... read more
Employment Rights
Can a part-timer be excluded from applying for promotion?
I have assumed that all 7 of you in the team do broadly the same job and that the 3 senior... read more
Employment Rights
Employer forced me to end homeworking
I understand that you have worked for your employer for nearly three years and have always... read more
Employment Rights
Has my bonus been reduced unfairly?
This is a difficult question to which there is no clear answer. Unfavourable treatment... read more
Employment Rights
Was I offered a settlement because I am pregnant?
Congratulations on your pregnancy. If you have not already done so, I suggest you tell... read more
Employment Rights
Can we be forced to travel abroad to meetings?
You could look at how many times you had to travel before you had your children and how... read more
Employment Rights
Law firm launches maternity rights campaign
Martin Searle Solicitors’ Mind the Bump 2017 campaign will run for a month and includes... read more
Employment Rights
Should there be consistency over pro rata of bonus and holidays?
I note that you have worked for your employer for over 6 years on a ‘part-time’... read more
Flexible Working Practices
TUC says government losing £4bn a year due to insecure jobs
The growth of insecure employment - those working without guaranteed hours or baseline... read more
Employment Rights
Should my pay rise be pro rata?
Your pay rise should be based on what you are receiving now, if it doesn’t state... read more
Employment Rights
Can I request a neutral person on an interview panel?
Assuming that your query relates to a redundancy situation (based on your reference to a... read more
Employment Rights
Accrued leave when changing from full to part time
I note from your question that you are currently on maternity leave. I further note that... read more
Employment Rights
Reorganisation while I was on secondment
If the Trust does formally offer you a newly created team leader role, assuming that the... read more
Employment Rights
Proposed demotion after TUPE
Without the full facts as to your case it is difficult to advise fully on the proposals... read more
Employment Rights
Asked to go full time or risk being sacked?
I note that you have been employed for a period of six years. On this basis, you will have... read more
Self Employment
Uber case ‘could have big implications for the gig economy’
Uber drivers have won their case to be considered as workers rather than self employed,... read more
Employment Rights
TUC calls for commitment to protect employment rights post-Brexit
The TUC is calling on the Prime Minister to assure working people she will protect... read more
