NHS Improvement have launched a consultation on the proposals about the use of off-framework agency workers to fill non-clinical and unregistered clinical shifts and the use of admin and estates agency workers.

Welcome to our first employment update for social housing and care homes for 2019. It certainly looks set to be another year in which the legal and political landscape is dominated by Brexit.

The EAT has handed down Judgment in a case in which Capsticks successfully defended an NHS Trust against a claim brought by a consultant.

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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered the difficult issue of voluntary overtime and the calculation of holiday pay.

The Court of Appeal has clarified conflicting case law and ruled that workers are not entitled to be paid the national minimum wage for time they are asleep on sleep-in shifts.

The High Court has ruled that an employer cannot continue with disciplinary proceedings against an employee pending resolution of her claim that the proceedings are in breach of her contract of employment.

Court of Appeal has provided some further guidance on what will amount to a "protected disclosure" under the whistleblowing legislation.

An insight into the highly publicised case on worker status, Pimlico Plumbers v Smith.

The EAT has found that a Claimant’s summary dismissal, without any existing warnings, was fair even though he had not committed any single act of gross misconduct.

An insight into the question of whether a man taking shared parental leave is entitled to the same rate of pay as a female employee taking maternity leave.

In this significant decision for NHS employers nationally, the High Court has reviewed the approach taken by numerous NHS Trusts to the monitoring of junior doctor rotas.