Daily Archives: 26th July 2017

Supreme Court declares employment tribunal fees unlawful

The Supreme Court in R (on the application of UNISON) v Lord Chancellor has declared employment tribunal and EAT fees to be unlawful under both domestic and EU law. The Court has decided that tribunal fees are unlawful and must be overturned because they have the effect of preventing access to the tribunal system. Therefore,…

Proposed employment law changes in the Taylor Review

Much of the publicity surrounding the Taylor Review into working practices published last week has centred around its proposals concerning the so-called ‘gig economy’. We will write about this in a separate blog but in this Eploy we look at some of the specific proposals relating to employment law set out in the report. The…