According to recent research from the TUC, just 9,200 out of more than 900,000 eligible parents chose to use shared parental leave last year. Four years after the system as introduced, the TUC found the take-up of shared parental leave was still so low because the majority of new fathers could not afford to live on of the weekly payment of £145.

A trainee emergency call operator who was using off-the-shelf caffeine supplements was racially discriminated against during a drug investigation in the workplace, a London tribunal rules.

A heating engineer from Kent, who won a claim against Pimlico Plumbers at the Supreme Court in June 2018, has now lost his claim for £74,000 in annual leave as he had not filed the paperwork quickly enough, an employment tribunal in Croydon ruled.

A police constable in the response team at Devon and Cornwall Police who was taken away from front line duties and placed in a desk-based role was the subject of pregnancy discrimination and indirect discrimination, an employment tribunal rules.

A woman on maternity leave was unfavourably treated, but not discriminated against, when her employer sent an important email regarding redundancy plans to an email address she could not access, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled.