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The Scottish Parliament has voted to withhold consent for a bill that could remove up to 3,700 European Union laws from the U.K.'s statute books, a rare move that may impede the passage of the bill passage but is unlikely to stop it becoming law.

The former general counsel of a contract trading company has lost her bid for a temporary payout from the business and its main investor in her claim she was forced out after blowing the whistle on alleged breaches of a share purchase agreement between the companies.

Employers whose staff work irregular hours should be able to prorate their holiday pay to more closely reflect the hours they actually work, the government has proposed, a move that would override the challenge presented by a recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling.

Two shareholders in a private wealth consultancy have defeated a banker's claims that their influence over the business during a restructuring in which she lost her job was unfairly motivated, in part, by bias against her as a European citizen.

The process to end someone's employment cannot conclude if the employee is disputing the termination, a technician argued to a London appeals court Thursday in a bid to retroactively shift the deadline for his lawsuit by a single day.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that an employee's refusal to go in to work at the beginning of the country's first national COVID-19 lockdown was "not reasonable" because he knew he could have kept his distance from colleagues.

Restricting workers' claims for unpaid holiday pay to three months after the last unlawful deduction is an unreasonable interpretation of the law, a union told the U.K. Supreme Court on Thursday in a case about how compensation should be calculated.

Compensation for unlawful deductions from holiday pay should reflect only the three months before a complaint is made — if a payout is due at all — Northern Ireland's police service argued in the U.K. Supreme Court Wednesday.

The U.K.'s top court ruled Wednesday that a bill which would ban protesting outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland is legally within the rights of the country to pass into law, in a case that could affect similar policies across Britain.

Britain's workers will be able to request flexible working patterns from the first day of their employment under proposed rules, the U.K. government said Monday as it committed to passing new legislation that attorneys say might have little effect on the ground.