What can Employers learn from Ashers Bakery and the “Gay Cake” scandal?

In October, the Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery have won their appeal in the so-called “gay cake” discrimination case.  The Supreme Court ruled that Ashers Bakery’s refusal to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage was not discriminatory. The background to this high-profile dispute began in 2014 when the bakery refused …

The Gig Economy: Modern Working Practice or Old Fashioned Exploitation?

The Gig Economy: Courier On Bicycle Delivering Food In City

Few aspects of the world of work have been subject to greater debate in recent months than that status of those working in the gig economy. Try to even find a definition for this term and you will be quickly plunged into the controversy which surrounds it. It is a term which describes a labour …