Workplace Wellbeing
Focuses on strategies for rest, recovery, work-life balance, and creating safe, positive working environments.
Half of British Women Faced Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment at work remains a pervasive issue in the UK, affecting over half of all women surveyed. A recent TUC report in collaboration with the Everyday Sexism Project reveals alarming stat...
Grievance Documents for Vaccination Exemption
Ensure your rights are upheld if your employer refuses to accept a Clinical Reason Exemption Certificate issued under The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities)(Amendment) (Coronavi...
Greggs Baker Fairly Dismissed
An employment tribunal in Donovan v Greggs plc determined that dismissing an experienced baker for breaching essential hygiene rules was a reasonable step to protect both customers and the employer...
Advice on Dress Codes
Dress codes are often used in the workplace for various reasons. Employers may ask staff to wear a uniform to communicate a corporate image and ensure customers can easily identify them. In other c...
Dismissal Was Disability Discrimination
By Stephen Simpson on 29 April 2016
An employment tribunal has held that it was discrimination arising from disability for an employee with mental health problems to be dismissed without a prope...
Hostility to WEU Member Was Unlawful
Legal Framework
The dispute revolved around Section 146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A), which protects workers from suffering an unlawful detriment for ...
Employers Can Legally Monitor Personal Messaging
Background of the ECHR Judgment
In a case put before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), judges ruled that a company which had read an employee’s messages sent through Yahoo Messenger while ...
TUC Poll on Work Christmas Party Embarrassment
More than one in ten (11%) workers who have attended a work Christmas party admit embarrassing themselves in front of their boss, according to new polling published by the TUC today.
Drinking and...
Annual Leave
Most workers in England are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid annual leave per year. This is known as statutory entitlement. Part-time employees receive a pro rata amount, matching the holiday ...
WEU Opposes the Trade Union Bill 2015
The Workers of England Union stands firmly against the Trade Union Bill 2015. We echo Jeremy Corbyn’s view that the government is “attacking working people” by introducing this legislation. Even so...
