Welcome The Sunday Times recently reported on some unintended consequences of the “Me Too” campaign. Following the stream of allegations and convictions concerning discrimination and harassment in the workplace, men are now apparently frightened...
As you are probably aware, a huge portion of the UK’s employment law comes from the EU including discrimination rights, transfer of undertakings information, family leave, working time regulations and duties to agency workers. In the White Paper...
Welcome February brings our second Employment Update of the year. We’ve seen off the first month of the year and its accompanying horror – ‘Dry January’. It’s not so much the act of people not having an alcoholic drink for...
Welcome Happy New Year to you all! This employment law update has, in the past, been described as both “mildly amusing” and “reasonably informative” – we’ll take that. But unfortunately, the description “sporadic” has crept into the picture...
Welcome! Welcome to our Autumn newsletter. What happened to the summer edition you say? Well, summer’s lease has all too short a date – too hot the eye of heaven shone, and so I didn’t get around to it. But speaking of temperature, last...
Welcome! It feels as if we’ve been away for about a year – our busiest year on record caused the hiatus but two new solicitors have joined us (see below) and we’re now back on form. Fortunately, nothing out of the ordinary has...
Welcome And in a packed issue this month we consider some recent decisions concerning the fairness in recruitment and in dismissals, as well as taking a look at a white van man’s altercation with a cyclist and the employment fall-out...
Welcome It’s Christmas party season again and you will have no doubt received the annual doomy solicitors’ warnings (about as welcome as a Victorian Aunt at a boozy dinner) about office parties, mentioning the word ‘Christmas’ and having fun. In...
A specialist construction contractor has praised a Southampton legal firm for its help with resolving skills gaps, managing staff welfare and enabling rapid growth here and overseas. Laurence Dunn, Director of DC Employment Solicitors, and his...
DC Employment Solicitors’ Laurence Dunn and two fellow keen cyclists (all three describing themselves as “in the prime of their lives”) will be taking on the challenge of riding 500 miles in relay over three days, in order to raise much needed...
Welcome The Summer season brings with it silly season stories and one in particular this year involved a criminal case presided over by Judge Patricia Lynch QC. The criminal was (accurately) described by the judge as a vile racist. Firstly, when...
Welcome I have it on what I believe to be good authority that women have enough difficulty in deciding what they should wear to work generally* and the developments over the last few weeks will not have made things any easier. Firstly, there was...
