Glasgow Employment Law Blog

Business Secretary Vince Cable has this week launched a consultation into how best to tackle the problem of zero hour contracts. Cable is asking businesses, unions and individuals to help highlight and close potential ‘loopholes’ in the governments plan to outlaw the use of exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts.

Job applicants are no longer required to disclose childhood or minor convictions after the Supreme court ruled the requirement to do so, violates human rights law.