The Department for Education (DfE) has launched its policy review on the asbestos management in schools. The consultation closing date is 31st March. The review calls for evidence from all organisations and individuals with an interest in the issue. This includes local authorities, schools, teachers, support staff, governors, unions, parents, epidemiologists, scientists, risk experts, asbestos […]

An Employment Tribunal has found the Civil Nuclear Constabulary guilty of discrimination against two of its female Authorised Firearm Officers (AFOs) in the provision of suitable firearms and safety equipment. Victoria Wheatley and Rachael Giles are officers based in two different installations, who complained separately of sex discrimination at regular mandatory test shoots.

 Julie Winn, Chair of the Joint Unions Asbestos Committee (JUAC) has spotted a golden opportunity that the Government are letting go to waste! Extending a planned Property Data Survey  for 8,000 schools would allow Government to collect critical information on the presence of asbestos in schools across the country. Read more from JUAC here The […]

ACAS have just issued a document giving guidance. It can be found here The Government announced last year that they considered the current Questionnaire procedure in discrimination cases a burden on business and proposed abolishing it entirely. This is despite the procedure having been on the statute books in one form or another since the […]

The Court of Appeal have today referred the Government’s Appeal from the EAT decision in USDAW v Ethel Austin Limited (In Administration) and USDAW v WW Realisation1 Limited and Others (the so-called Woolies case) to the European Court (CJEU). The EAT decision can be found here. My original blog on the issue can be found […]

  The final version of the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings 9f  Protection of Employment (Amendment) Regulations (“CRATUPEAR 2014”) have now been published. They can be found here:  http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/16/contents/made. The Government have also issued revised guidance. I previously blogged about this when the Government published their response to the consultation last October. There are no […]