Plans to ban the recruitment of adult social care workers from abroad could lead to a shortage of workers and force providers to rely on expensive agency staff, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has warned.

Transport for London (TfL) has blocked an advertising consultancy from bidding for a marketing contract after the firm rowed back on its Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) goals.

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council has been fined £200,000 after an employee was injured while installing the town’s 20-foot Christmas tree.

The deputy leader of Castle Point Borough Council has reiterated a commitment to "put right" historic potentially unlawful payments made to senior management known to be worth up to £1.15m.

The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by a claimant who argued that she had been subjected to a “detriment” because she made a protected disclosure of information after unsuccessfully applying for two posts at a local authority.

Birmingham City Council remains in a "fragile" position, as an ongoing dispute over its waste service escalates to a "major incident”, the Local Government Minister has warned.

GMB Union has launched legal proceedings on behalf of around 400 women working as school support staff at Barnet Council, in what the union says is the first local authority equal pay claim launched in London.

Teachers who have been affected by “major delays” in getting their pensions valued are threatening legal action against the Government and pension provider, Capita Pension Solutions.

Devon County Council has shelved plans to fire and rehire more than 800 staff over a dispute about cutting Essential Car User Allowance payments, after the local authority reached an agreement with union members.

Schools inspection body Ofsted was wrong to sack an inspector who wiped water off a pupil’s head, the Court of Appeal has found.

A further six barristers specialising in employment law are to join 4-5 Gray's Inn Square, it has been confirmed. The new arrivals are: Richard O’Dair (1988 call) Raoul Downey (1988 call) Terence Finn (1995 call) Sheila Aly (2002 call), Lorraine Mensah (1997 call) Anna Loutfi (2019 call) and Jimmy Ogunshakin (2022 call). They will join as full tenants from Monday next week. On Monday the set…

Devon County Council has threatened to "fire and rehire" more than 800 staff after union members rejected the council's proposal to change the terms and conditions of a car users' allowance it offers to some staff.

A report by school leaders’ union NAHT has revealed that more than four in five (82%) school leaders say they have been abused by parents in the past year, leaving some considering “quitting the profession they love”.

The Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed a former teacher’s appeal against a finding by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) that he had developed an “inappropriate relationship” with a pupil - and therefore would be precluded from being a teacher - despite a separate TRA disciplinary panel finding he was not guilty of professional misconduct.

4-5 Gray’s Inn Square has strengthened its employment law offering with the arrival of eight barristers.

Wiltshire Council is to withdraw an appeal against a finding by an Employment Tribunal that an email sent by the local authority’s chief executive to union members ahead of a vote on industrial action was unlawful as it sought to deter union members from voting in favour of a strike.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has confirmed that it has opened an investigation regarding the conduct of two individual accountants in relation to Woking Borough Council’s operations and investment activities.

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal from a Christian school employee who was dismissed because she posted messages on her personal Facebook account opposing the teaching in schools, and in particular primary schools, of “gender fluidity” and that same-sex marriage is equivalent to marriage between a man and a woman.

A headteacher found to have spent school funds on martini glasses, champagne flutes and a giant Jenga set has lost an appeal against a ban from the profession.

Removal of the possibility of so-called ‘fire and rehire’, without a replacement mechanism for making contractual changes to terms and conditions, will impact on councils’ ability to implement equality proofed pay structures or deliver local government reorganisation, the Local Government Association has warned.

A councillor at Torridge District Council has been jailed for 18 weeks for harassment of the local authority’s head of legal and governance.

Barnet Council's monitoring officer and its Section 151 officer have jointly issued a section 114 report after finding a series of payments in and out of its pension fund that they believed were unlawful.

Just 15% of district councils support government plans to create unitary councils covering a population of 500,000, according to a survey from the District Councils' Network (DCN).

Councils face a shortfall of £637m next year in direct costs from the increase in national insurance contributions, and potentially £1.13bn more in indirect costs to suppliers, the Local Government Association has claimed.

An Employment Tribunal claim brought against the London Borough of Newham by its directly elected executive mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, alleging race and sex discrimination, has been settled.

The London Borough of Croydon will take no further action to seek to recover a settlement payment worth £437,000 made to its former chief executive, Jo Negrini, in 2020.

Birmingham City Council has reached a framework agreement with UNISON and GMB to settle historic equal pay claims made by members working for the local authority and Birmingham Children's Trust.

A borough council's Standards Committee has found that the council's leader failed to comply with a sanction which called on her to apologise to a staff member.

A police investigation into historical financial mismanagement and governance failures at Croydon Council will take no further action despite finding potential wrongdoing, breaches of statutory duty and incompetence.

The GMB union has hit out at Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council over plans that could see the local authority pursue a "fire and rehire" scheme in an effort to establish a pay structure that complies with equal pay laws.