The Business Secretary and the Deputy Prime Minister are reportedly at odds over plans to hand workers full employment rights from day one in a job. The Telegraph has been told that Jonathan Reynolds and Angela Rayner were in disagreement over how far reforms should go. Ms Rayner is understood to be pushing to hand…

Shop workers’ union USDAW has won a Supreme Court battle against Tesco over the supermarket chain’s “fire and rehire” plans. In 2007, Tesco offered staff at distribution centres that were closing increased “retained pay” so they would relocate. However, Tesco went on to remove this retained pay by either offering staff a lump sum to…

The Renters Rights Bill, introduced in Parliament, aims to enhance tenant protections by prohibiting landlords from increasing rents more than once a year and banning ‘no-fault evictions’. Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook said: “We want to drive out disreputable landlords from the sector,” emphasising that reputable landlords have “nothing to fear”. The legislation also…

Drivers for Bolt, represented by Leigh Day, are contesting their classification as self-employed contractors in a London tribunal, arguing they should be recognised as workers entitled to rights such as holiday pay and the national living wage. Charlotte Pettman, an associate solicitor at Leigh Day, said: “This is one of the biggest cases of its…

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has extended the deadline for firms to comply with new sustainability rules by four months. The City watchdog said it has taken longer than expected for firms to make changes to their fund names when it came to using new sustainability labels. With this in mind, the FCA is offering…

Jonathan Sara, a solicitor at Private Office Legal Services, has been fined £5,165 for failing to adequately advise over 100 clients on high-risk schemes involving the purchase and subletting of leasehold rooms in care homes. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) found that between February 2017 and March 2019, Mr Sara breached multiple principles of the SRA Code of Conduct. Although his conduct was deemed serious, it was not intentional, and he was not found to…