Name of weekly column: Speechly Speak Name of this week's contributor: Anne-Marie Balfour , solicitor, Speechly Bircham Last week the Government announced new plans to protect vulnerable workers in what it described as “dark corners of the labour market where rogue employers seek to mistreat their...

Not for the first time this year, the UK has been put it in its place by the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) over its interpretation of EU equal treatment legislation. It's now generally the case that employees are protected from discrimination relating to themselves or an associate (e.g. family...