A legal right to ignore emails outside work, zero hours contracts ban, 6-month protection from dismissal for maternity returners. Labour’s early Christmas present to employment lawyers!

This is the last of three posts regarding the government’s plan to increase employee rights with changes they describe as “the biggest reforms to workers’ rights in a generation”, a flagship Labour policy and one of the few we were aware of prior to the election. In addition to the previously mentioned changes to flexibleContinue reading “A legal right to ignore emails outside work, zero hours contracts ban, 6-month protection from dismissal for maternity returners. Labour’s early Christmas present to employment lawyers!”