The UK will leave the EU at the end of March 2019, but any EU law that comes into force before we leave will continue to apply, even when the Brexit process is complete. The General Data Protection Regulation, for example, comes into force in May next year and will certainly apply in the UK.…
Back in 2016 the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Bărbulescu v Romania that an employer did not violate an employee’s right to privacy and respect for his private correspondence when he printed off 45 pages of personal messages he had sent using the What’s App account that he had installed…
It seems like hardly a week goes by without another employer in the ‘gig-economy’ being told by an employment tribunal that it actually has to give employment rights to the people that it claims are just freelancers finding work through their app. Working for or Working with? Workers at Deliveroo, Citysprint and Addison Lee have…