Employment Snapshot September 2025

Wednesday 24th September 2025

Welcome to Gordons Employment Team’s latest update

This month we cover recent cases on:

  • Reasonable adjustments – the extent of employer obligations; and,
  • Is travel time to and from work ‘time work’?

Reasonable adjustments – the extent of employer obligations

In the recent case of Hindmarch v North-East Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust, it was determined that an employer is not obligated to implement reasonable adjustments if there is no genuine likelihood of those adjustments being effective.

Is travel to and from work ‘time work’?

The Court of Appeal ruled in Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Taylors Services Ltd (Dissolved) and others that travel between home and a first work location does not qualify as ‘time work’ under the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 (“NMW Regulations”).

Read more

​​​​​​​If you require any further information on the above topics, please do not hesitate to get in contact with a member of the Employment Team.