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Government backs Carer's Leave Bill

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Chambers 2023: Doyle Clayton receives recognition

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The 2023 edition of the Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession has now been launched and its been another good year for Doyle Clayton.

Forstater: effective protections for gender critical beliefs at work

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Maya Forstater has succeeded in her claim that she was discriminated against because of her gender critical beliefs. The tribunal rejected the respondents’ argument that the reason for her treatment was not her beliefs, but that she had manifested them in an objectively unreasonable away. None of her communications were objectively unreasonable and, for the most part, were simply statements of her protected beliefs

The Legal 500 2023: Excellent Doyle Clayton Performance

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The latest edition of The Legal 500 which reviews law firm services and the lawyer providing them has been launched.

Is it time to retire the University of Oxford’s enforced retirement policy?

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Since the default retirement age was abolished in the UK in 2011, the University of Oxford has maintained a fixed retirement age, called the Employer Justified Retirement Age or “EJRA”. Only Cambridge and St Andrews have a similar policy, no other Russell Group universities have a policy of forced retirement.

The Great Resignation - Why organisations are losing top female talent

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Since the world has emerged out of lockdown, it seems that a so-called ‘Great Resignation’ has swept the nation. Over a year after the term was first coined, the job market remains buoyant; employees are continuing to leave their jobs or change careers and women, in particular, are quitting their jobs. Women are believed to have dropped out of the workforce at twice the rate of men since the pandemic began

Employer liable to pay income protection payments not covered by insurance policy

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The Court of Appeal has ruled that an employer was liable to top up an employee’s income protection payments, even though the top up payments were not covered by the terms of its insurance policy.

Harpur Trust v Brazel – are you calculating holiday pay correctly?

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The Supreme Court has handed down its highly anticipated decision in the case of Harpur Trust v Brazel. The Court has decided that the amount of holiday a part-year worker employed under a permanent contract is entitled to should not be pro-rated to be proportional to that of a full-time worker.

Injunction preventing fire and re-hire by Tesco overturned by Court of Appeal

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The Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court’s decision to issue an injunction preventing Tesco from using “fire and re-hire” to remove employees’ entitlement to retained pay.

Employee with long COVID was disabled

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