References: are they worth anything anymore?

When I first qualified employers habitually gave detailed references about employees. Then came the case law where employers were challenged for negligent misrepresentation and the Data Protection Act allowed ex-employees to access references via the subject access...

Redundancy jitters

I’ve been speaking to an employer who is finding making some staff redundant really difficult. This is an entirely normal response. Us lawyers who deal with redundancies all the time and probably sound a bit blase about it, could do with remembering that and...