According to a survey of European employers, an increasing number are taking steps to improve workplace equality and to support the mental health of their employees (...).
When bringing a claim of discrimination, workers who are not employees or apprentices have to show that they are working under a contract personally to do work. In Town and Country Glasgow Ltd v Munro, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that if the worker’s role can be performed by someone else, then they cannot be said to have a "contract personally to do work" (...).
The law states that, when making someone redundant, employers must notify their employee that their current contract is being terminated. The Employment Appeal Tribunal held in East London NHS Foundation Trust v O’Connor that notifying someone that their post is to be deleted does not amount to notification of termination of their contract (...).