What’s indirect discrimination? The Equality Act 2010 protects employees from discrimination at work. One type of discrimination is indirect discrimination. This happens when an employer applies a policy, rule or working practice (known as a provision, criterion or practice, or PCP) to everyone, but it puts people with a particular protected characteristic at a disadvantage…. [Read More]

A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision has confirmed that employers can provide payslips electronically, provided employees can genuinely access them. The right to an itemised pay statement Under section 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 workers and employees have the right to receive an itemised pay statement on or before payday. The payslip… [Read More]

1. New legal right to raise concerns On 19 June 2026, a major change to UK data protection law came into force. Under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, employees and other individuals now have a legal right to raise data protection concerns directly with an organisation before taking their complaint to the Information… [Read More]

Employers can’t assume that an employee is not disabled, simply because occupational health has not said so in clear terms.  This relates to the concept of constructive knowledge which often arises in disability discrimination cases. What is constructive knowledge? Constructive knowledge means that you may be treated as knowing about a disability even if nobody… [Read More]

Most HR professionals are familiar with unfair dismissal claims, but wrongful dismissal is a different type of claim. What is the difference between unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal? Unfair dismissal centres around whether it was fair for the employer to dismiss the employee.  Wrongful dismissal usually focuses on whether the employer was entitled to dismiss… [Read More]