1. The Labour Party has proposed key changes to UK employment laws.
2. The Employment Appeal Tribunal considered whether an employer was justified in printing documents in small print.
3. An Employment Tribunal heard a case where an employee was dismissed for refusing to remove intentionally provocative preferred pronoun language from an email signature.

The Recent Developments in More Detail

1. The Labour Party has proposed key changes to UK employment laws.

The Labour Party won a substantial majority in the UK General Election on 4 July 2024. In the lead up to the election, the Labour Party proposed extensive reforms to UK employment law. Legislation is expected to be put before Parliament in the first 100 days of the Labour Party’s entry into government and so finer details of the proposals should soon become clearer. In the meantime, we highlight below the key proposals that employers should be aware of.

• Unfair Dismissal Rights

  Labour has proposed giving all workers unfair dismissal rights from their first day of employment. Currently, employees need to have worked for their employer for two years to qualify for this protection. Whilst this will be a significant change, Labour has stated that it will be possible for employers to fairly dismiss employees during their probation period. Whilst Labour has not provided further details on how this change will operate in practice, it is likely that we will see a significant increase in the number of tribunal claims.

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