On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (also known as the ‘ICJ’ or ‘World Court’) delivered an Advisory Opinion, which is of importance for workers across the globe. The question referred
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This reform had been long overdue. The failure of UK law to protect workers on strike from any detriments short of dismissal was a gap too blatant to ignore. Let alone defend. It
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August 2026 sees the 30th anniversary of the Employment Rights Act 1996 coming into force. In the words of the Lord Chancellor at the time, it (with the linked Industrial Tribunals Act 1996
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In response to some work-related criminal offences, sanctions under UK law include not only fines and imprisonment, but also the confiscation of wages as proceeds of crime. Two such contexts are ‘illegal working’ by migrants
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On 7 April 2026, the Fair Work Agency (FWA) officially launched as an executive agency of the Department of Business and Trade. The FWA brings together three existing enforcement bodies—the National Minimum Wage Unit, the
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In Kemi Badenoch’s Speech to the CBI of 28 November 2025, the leader of the opposition declared that the Employment Rights Bill then before Parliament
“is a 330-page assault on flexible working written
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Amendment of applications to the employment tribunals is usually a matter for the discretion of the tribunal and raises no point of law for appeal. Rarely have two cases (Rice v
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At the end of January 2026, the Upper Tax Tribunal decided that severe baldness in women is a disability. I first wrote about the illogicality of equality law’s approach to baldness in
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I would like to thank Professor Valerio de Stefano, Professor Douglas Brodie, Dr Zoe Adams and Dr Steve Riley for all their help and support in developing these ideas.
1. Introduction
In this blog,
