Legal News

Estonian regulations allowed spectacles etc to be used in deciding whether prison guards met vision requirements, but did not allow hearing aids in assessing their hearing. The EU court held this hearing requirement was not likely to be justified. More generally, the regulations did not allow consideration of reasonable adjustments. The regulations therefore appeared to... Read more »
The Court of Appeal has held that a worker who took leave which the employer failed to pay because it saw him as ‘self-employed’ could carry the right to paid leave forward indefinitely. In King v Sash Window Workshop, 2017, the European Court had held there could be unlimited carry-forward of paid leave in a... Read more »
We are continuing to update our Covid-19 page for recent changes. Changes include: Advice for office workers in England to work from home was withdrawn on 19th January 2022: Covid>Working from home. The English regulations making face coverings compulsory – subject to exemptions – in shops, public transport and various other settings no longer apply... Read more »
To free up GP capacity, employees are temporarily being allowed to self-certify sickness absence of up to 28 days for Statutory Sick Pay, rather than the usual 7 days. This applies if the absence begins between 10th December 2021 and 26th January 2022 inclusive. It only applies to SSP. There is no reason not to... Read more »
An appeal case has upheld two tribunal decisions which had reached opposite conclusions on the same university retirement policy. This was two joined appeals where Professors Pitcher (English Literature) and Ewart (Atomic and Laser Physics) had been required to retire at age 67 under the same university retirement policy. Each case had been heard by... Read more »