Last week marked the occasion of the Queen's jubilee speech which was heavily angled at aims to restore economic stability and reducing the budget deficit.
Employee, worker or self employed? - Do you think you know and are you right?
Retirement used to be one of the five potentially fair reasons for dismissal although this seems like many moons ago following the governments abolition of the default retirement age and the statutory retirement procedure in April 2011.
Has your employer gone bust? Where does that leave you?
With the financial impact of the double dip recession and its continued effect on employees and employers, the Government has made a welcome announcement that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) is set to increase
Having been a highly publicised issue in early 2011 and again dominating the headlines over the past fortnight following the court of appeal's decision, we are left wondering, is there a place for personal beliefs, religious or otherwise in society and or the workplace?
Welcome to the first edition of Employment Law Corner in my new position as Senior Solicitor at Bolt Burdon Solicitors based in Angel, Islington!
As reports this week confirmed that the UK economy shrank by 0.2 per cent in the last three months of 2011, economists have warned that if this figure does not show improvement in the first quarter of 2012, the UK will be plunged back into recession
