2022 what a year! We began the year in the continued grip of COVID-19 restrictions but with a promise of an end in sight moving from lockdown to 'living with COVID-19. Emerging from lockdown appears to have changed the world of work with the 2022 employment words of the year being "hybrid-working" and "quiet-quitting". But COVID-19 did not grab all the headlines this year. Political turmoil as the Government churned through three Prime Ministers, a growing cost of living crisis and widespread strikes have significantly impacted both employers and employees.
Employment status
Workers Wars: The Phantom Mutuality
To be a "worker" for employment law purposes an individual will need to establish that they:
After last year's long awaited Supreme Court judgment in the long-running and high profile case of Uber BV and ors v Aslam and ors you may be forgiven for hoping that issues around "worker" employment status were now largely resolved. Whether or not an individual is a worker is primarily a question of statutory interpretation, not contractual interpretation. You start by considering who the legislation is intended to protect. You then look at all the facts, including the contract as well as the conduct of the parties, and decide whether a person is a worker. So the contract is not...
crime TOKYO Videos falsely portraying foreigners as stealing metal from railway tracks in Japan have spread widely on the country's social media, apparently to suggest foreigners are a threat to p...