The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Ms A Alhayali [2025] Civ 1162

Ms Alhayali was employed by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in its Cultural Bureau. She was dismissed from her role and in January 2018 presented a claim to the Employment Tribunal, …

Poland to give labour inspectors power to reclassify civil law contracts

Along-awaited new draft of Poland’s National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) Act has been published and, as widely expected, introduces significant changes to the enforcement of the nation’s labour law.  Chief among …

Labour must deliver collective bargaining for unions – John Hendy

The Employment Rights Bill is nearly an Act. It only remains for the government to use its majority in the House of Commons to defeat the Tory and Lib-Dem amendments …

Equalities watchdog submits formal guidance after UK supreme court transgender ruling

The equalities watchdog has submitted its formal guidance about how institutions should respond to the landmark supreme court ruling on transgender people’s rights, with its chair admitting it would be …

‘All the power is with the employer’: why zero-hours workers welcome Labour’s rights bill

When Seamus Foley took a job on a zero-hours contract at a board games bar in London two years ago, the flexibility it offered was appealing. Now, the deal looks …

More flexible staffing rules for France’s digital platforms?

For centuries, the use of an individual’s physical or intellectual strength on behalf of another has been governed by an employment contract and highly protective legal provisions.  Since 2000, however, …

Lidl signs UK pledge to prevent sexual harassment within workforce

German supermarket chain Lidl has signed a formal agreement with the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), vowing to strengthen its policies against sexual harassment in the workplace. The …

The “underdiagnosis” of heat-related worker deaths: “The data doesn’t reflect what’s happening.

(article originally in Spanish) Unions say official statistics, which do not report a single death in 2024, do not capture the scale of the phenomenon. Other European countries suffer from …

North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work ‘like slaves’ in Russia

Thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work in slave-like conditions in Russia to fill a huge labour shortage exacerbated by Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the BBC has …

Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) v. Spain

The complaint was registered on 31 July 2025. It relates to Articles 1§§2 and 4 (the right to work), 3 (the right to safe and healthy working conditions), 11 (the …