A borough council is to appoint an independent investigator to examine the procedure followed when an additional duties allowance of £15,000 per annum was awarded to its chief executive.

Junior doctors in Derby have won a 'precedent setting' Court of Appeal case over the monitoring of rest breaks.

The average wait time for employment tribunal (ET) claims has risen again this year to an average of 237 days between employment tribunals receiving a claim and a hearing taking place.

The Government has accepted that a difference in treatment arising out of 'transition protection' that the Court of Appeal identified as unlawful age discrimination will need to be remedied across pension schemes for the NHS, civil service, local government, teachers, police, armed forces, judiciary and fire and rescue workers.

The Chief Constable of Lincolnshire, Bill Skelly, is to take the national College of Policing to judicial review over a new degree requirement recruitment scheme being imposed on the police service.

The Supreme Court has this week refused the Government permission to appeal in a long-running dispute with the Fire Brigades Union over changes to firefighters’ pensions in 2015.

The London Borough of Wandsworth has failed to have a man jailed for breaching an order intended to prevent abuse of a social worker.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has urged the Government to amend its legal aid funding guidance to ensure that discrimination claims which are also seeking other resolutions, such as an injunction or declaration, are not assumed to be a claim for damages, “due to the importance of confronting discrimination to the individual and to society”.

A landlord has been found guilty and fined more than £1,600 for assaulting a council officer by pushing him down some stairs at a property he was inspecting, and obstructing the inspection from being carried out.

A High Court ruling concerning employees of a residential care firm will allow their equal pay claims to move forward, law firm Leigh Day has said.

Cheshire Police have reached a settlement with a would-be trainee who won a tribunal claim that he had suffered discrimination as a heterosexual white man.

A South Gloucestershire Council social worker has been struck off by the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service for falsifying time sheets.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal is this week hearing an appeal from a former magistrate who was removed from the judiciary after he expressed the view that it was in a child's best interests to be raised by a mother and a father.

There is a place for further review and regulation of confidentiality agreements (or NDAs), particularly in settlement agreements, to reduce the risk that such agreements prevent proper reporting of sexual misconduct at work, the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) has said.

Three Conservative councillors have been found to have brought Lancaster City Council into disrepute.

The union representing chief executives and senior managers in local government has hit out at the government’s draft regulations for the proposed introduction of the £95,000 cap on public sector exit payments.

The chief executive of Flintshire County Council has written to all councillors to denounce an anonymous letter about his appointment 12 years ago.

A former GP practice manager has been fined for sending personal data to her own email account without authorisation, following an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee have called on the Government to take urgent action to enable local authorities to prepare for the consequences of Brexit.

A partnership of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds have given the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government a copy of legal advice suggesting that proposals in draft statutory guidance on asset pooling require a change in the law.

An employee of an NHS Foundation Trust in the West Midlands has been fined for unlawfully accessing the personal records of 14 individuals.

The London Borough of Lambeth has won an appeal over the suspension of a primary school teacher after it had earlier won in the County Court but lost a High Court appeal.

A former senior local government officer has been fined £660 for passing the personal information of rival job applicants to his partner.

An applicant to join the police has won a case in which he argued that he was discriminated against as a heterosexual white man under policies designed to promote diversity.

Twelve law firms have been appointed to a £11.75m legal services framework to provide support to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal in the long-running litigation over whether sleep-in residential care workers should be paid the National Minimum Wage while asleep.

A High Court judge has refused to grant the Unite union an interim injunction against Birmingham City Council over an alleged breach of an agreement in 2017 that brought a long-running bins strike to an end.

The Unite union has said it is to seek a High Court injunction against Birmingham City Council amid claims that the local authority is breaking an agreement reached in 2017 to end a long-running bin dispute.

Tandridge District Council is to update its member and officer relations protocol for the first time in 18 years in part to take account of potential attacks on officers on social media.

Glasgow City Council and the claimant group represented by Action4Equality, UNISON, GMB and UNITE have reached an agreement in principle to a package of payments to resolve historical claims for unequal pay.