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The number of equal pay claims in the Employment Tribunals is up 72% on the same quarter last year, according to the latest released statistics. That’s sobering reading, even though I’ve been predicting it for some time. All the more... Read more
At our recent annual national conference, UK employment lawyers enjoyed an excellent opening plenary session on mental health at work. Here we learned a new phrase: chronic embitterment. It was one of those phrases which, as soon as we heard... Read more
In our sixth blog on equal pay I am looking at the downsides of the usually very useful tool for employers, the ‘material factor’ defence. In our last equal pay blog ( How far can you defend unequal pay? ) we looked at how helpful it can... Read more
In our last Equal Pay blog, we talked about the three different ways in which an equal pay claimant can compare him or herself with a higher-paid colleague of the opposite sex. The comparator has to be in a role... Read more
The Equal Pay Act will be 46 years old this year. So why is it the big employment law news story for 2016? What’s all the fuss? Well, there are a few different reasons. The last two decades have seen... Read more
Believe it or not, lawyers of my generation were trained to be very careful never to tell a client what we thought he, she or it should do in any given situation. We should lay out the options, but insist... Read more
Following on from my recent blog Lawyer or Catfish? , my first offering on how lawyers can be more effective and nicer all round comes down to Being Quiet A Lot More Than Usual. Those of you who know me will appreciate that... Read more
In my long journey back from lawyer towards human being, I’ve needed to reassess many aspects of what it is to be a lawyer. And that has included lawyer jokes. You’re locked in a small room with a tiger, a... Read more
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