Losing Your Job

Trade unions are not the dominant force that they were in the workplace toward the end of the last century but the benefits they bring are many and...

Once an employee has tendered resignation over a work-related issue that may not be the end of the affair. If the employee feels they had no choice...

An Employment Tribunal is a court that only hears cases about employment and although it is a lot less formal than a High Court or other legal court...

Being made redundant is the term used to describe the process where an employee loses their job because it's no longer required as opposed to being...

Workers are increasingly expected to be more mobile these days and in today's whirlwind of takeovers and mergers there sometimes seems to be precious...

Legal Aid is no longer as widely available as it used to be but a solicitor is still a valuable resource if an employment dispute cannot be resolved...

There are various forms of state support for those without jobs in addition to Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA) and Income Support (IS), which are covered...

There are effectively three forms of dismissal from an employer; fair, unfair and constructive, and as the Constructive Dismissal article in this...

In today's business world the search for profit often leads to companies divesting themselves of service teams and hiring the work out - outsourcing...

The promotion of arbitration, and its cousins mediation and conciliation, since the early 1970s has revolutionised the resolution of disputes in the...

There are many rights of workers that are protected by law in the United Kingdom but as there are no 'work police' how are those laws enforced? There...