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The Government has published its “roadmap” (a timetable) for introducing its proposed radical programme of changes to employment law. Despite deliberately introducing its Employment Bill within the first 100 days of power, the new timetable has considerably less urgency and much of the legislative programme we have been discussing over the past year has been delayed. In particular, the much-heralded right to claim unfair dismissal from the first day of employment (rather than after two years) has been delayed to an unspecified date in 2027.

EmploymentAndrew MestonJuly 2, 2025Daniel Isaac

Where’s my toilet? ECHR Interim Guidance on single sex spaces

I have lost count of how many times, over the past decade, I have deleted the word “gender” in a client’s equality policy and replaced it with the word “sex”, not through any ideological conviction but simply because it reflects the wording in the Equality Act 2010.

EmploymentAndrew MestonApril 27, 2025Daniel Isaac

Code of Practice on Distribution of Tips

In previous updates, we outlined that the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (“the Tipping Act”) received Royal Assent in May 2023 and will come into force on 1 October 2024.

In May 2024, the House of Lords approved the Government’s draft Code of Practice on the fair and transparent distribution of tips (“the Code of Practice”).

EmploymentKevin WilliamsAugust 14, 2024Daniel Isaac

Gender Issues in the Workplace

Views in the “transgender debate” are often strongly held (or, in the words of a recent tribunal decision, ”rhadamanthine”) . In most workforces of any size, there will be a range of views regarding whether a trans-woman is actually a woman and on related topics such as transgender participation in women’s sport or the use of single-sex facilities, such as changing rooms and toilets.

EmploymentAndrew MestonJuly 28, 2023Daniel Isaac, James Williams, Leigh Janes

Government Announces Changes To Employment Law

On 10 May 2023, the government announced that it proposed making three significant changes to employment law.

EmploymentAndrew MestonMay 12, 2023Daniel Isaac, James Williams, Leigh Janes