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Human rights and employment law have much in common. Both could be described as growth areas for litigation over the past ten years or so. Both make easy targets for politicians and pundits looking for a scapegoat. And both are reportedly on the Government’s agenda for reform, a fact not unrelated to the previous point. Some recent human rights at work cases illustrate the overlap between the two subjects in the workplace. More
New earnings and labour market data published today show a mixed picture as both employment and unemployment grew and economic inactivity fell back. Most of the jobs growth was among part-time employees. The growth rate of average earnings in the private sector was 2.3 per cent in December, up from 2.1 per cent in November. The growth rate of earnings in the public sector was 1.1 per cent in December, down from 1.4 per cent in November. More
Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation dropped to 3.9 per cent in January, down from 4.8 per cent in December. The sharp fall was largely the consequence of the January 2011 rise in VAT falling out of the annual measure. In addition the price of petrol rose very little this year compared with a big rise in January 2011. More
