The European Commission has published guidance on the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It has also launched a new online tool for SMEs.

The government has published a guide to the application of the Equality Act 2010 and the National Minimum Wage for seafarers.

The European Court of Human Rights has held that an employer’s decision to carry out covert surveillance to monitor suspected workplace theft by a number of its workers violated their privacy rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human…

The government has announced changes to the system for obtaining basic DBS criminal records checks in England and Wales.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a compensatory rest break must be a single continuous period of at least 20 minutes.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld a tribunal’s decision that an employer had directly discriminated against an employee because of a perceived disability.

Hot employment law topics in 2018 will be the General Data Protection Regulation, the gig economy, gender pay gap reporting and of course Brexit.

The Government has announced changes to the Immigration Rules, which will mostly come into force on 11 January.

Regulations on PAYE reporting requirements for car and fuel benefit and optional remuneration arrangements have been made.