A new UK bill introduced by the Starmer Labour Government seeks to reduce the qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal from two years to an employee's first day of work, although employers will potentially have an initial nine months in which to sack those "not right for the job".
The UK's Starmer Labour Government has introduced legislation that aims to undo the "ideological, ineffective anti-union" laws imposed by Conservative governments.
The UK Government is considering introducing reforms to stop employers using labour-hire arrangements to short-change women, as part of a suite of changes aimed at ending workplace pay discrimination.
A UK IR tribunal has awarded a teacher £61,000 ($118,000) for disability discrimination and unfair dismissal, after her employer failed to make reasonable adjustments for symptoms of menopause and anxiety and then dismissed her for incapacity, but failed to consider suitable alternative roles.
The UK's Starmer Labour Government has committed to introducing legislation within its first 100 days that will outlaw zero-hours contracts and give workers unfair dismissal protections from their first day on the job, King Charles has declared in his speech setting out the new administration's goals.
Low Pay Commission research has found that Government policies have driven the UK minimum wage's "bite" of the median up by 9.3 percentage points, while Australia's has increased by less than 0.1 percentage points since 2015, with next month's 9.8% wage floor rise in the old country to bring the minimum up to two-thirds of the median wage.
One of the world's most powerful business leaders, BP global chief executive Bernard Looney, has resigned after a second review of his relationships with company colleagues.
A UK tribunal has found that a male manager harassed a male worker by touching him inappropriately and suggestively singing a song about propositioning someone for s-x.
A UK tribunal has found that a job interviewer asked seven questions that could be "reasonable and entirely innocuous" individually, but cumulatively could constitute racial discrimination.
The UK's Sunak Government has introduced 12 weeks paid leave for parents with babies in neonatal care, as an additional entitlement on top of paid parental leave.
