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Privacy: Tinker, tailor, worker, spy: covert recordings in the workplace

Employment Law Journal | November 2019

Michael Chattle and Katie Lobley explore the issue of employees making secret recordings and provide advice on how to reduce the risks that this poses

Employee vetting: A clean slate? Criminal record checks in employment

Employment Law Journal | March 2019

Katie Davenport explores how the GDPR and attitudes to data privacy are changing the approach to employee background checks

Employment status: Trouble in the pipeline for employers post Pimlico Plumbers

Employment Law Journal | July 2018

Sean Nesbitt and Rachel Farr consider the lessons for businesses from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Pimlico Plumbers

Employee surveillance: CCTV in the workplace – the limits of Big Brother

Employment Law Journal | March 2018

A recent human rights decision and forthcoming changes to data protection rules are likely to make it harder for employers to justify CCTV monitoring of employees, warn Michael Chattle and Stephanie Creed

Grievances: Confidentiality issues in workplace investigations

Employment Law Journal | September 2017

Colin Godfrey and Michael Chattle share their tips on how to manage the competing rights to privacy of employees who bring a grievance, colleagues they make an allegation against and witnesses

Employee Status: Is employment becoming obsolete?

Employment Law Journal | April 2016

The rise of independent contractors and Uber-style working models is posing a challenge for policy makers and law courts around the world, explains Sean Nesbitt

Disability Discrimination: A minefield for employers

Employment Law Journal | March 2016

Three recent cases highlight some of the tricky situations that employers face when dealing with employees who have a disability, reports Rachel Farr

Termination Payments: Taxing proposals

Employment Law Journal | October 2015

Will the government’s plans to simplify the tax treatment of termination payments really make the system easier to understand, asks Rachel Farr

Social Media: Twitter trouble

Employment Law Journal | March 2015

In light of recent case law, Stephanie Creed considers ways to minimise the risk of reputational damage to organisations from comments posted online by employees

Dispute Resolution: Just how mandatory is mandatory early conciliation?

Employment Law Journal | October 2014

With no clear incentive for employers and employees to enter into genuine settlement discussions, James Watkins, Kathryn Clapp and Rachel Farr question how effective the new early conciliation regime will be