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The Right to be Forgotten: What it means for HR
...Employment Practices Data Protection Code of Practice makes it clear that vetting should only be used as a means of obtaining specific information and not as a means of general intelligence gathering....
Planning for Adverse Weather
Planning for Adverse Weather As winter approaches, we look at the actions an employer can take to plan for weather-related incidents. From December through to February employees and employers can gen...
Restrictive Covenants in iGaming - as published in iGaming Busines
...employment. They can include: - 1. A confidentiality clause specifying what information the employee must keep confidential and for how long. 2. An Intellectual Property clause specifying what pate...
Recent Cases
Acas Code Applied to Dismissal for Some Other Substantial Reason
Acas Code Applied to Dismissal for Some Other Substantial Reason The Acas Code of Practice on Disciplinary Procedures applied to a dismissal for some other substantial reason where disciplinary procee...
Recent Cases
Voluntary Overtime Can be Included in Statutory Holiday Pay, Northern Ireland Court of Appeal Rules
...Employment Appeals Tribunal in Northern Ireland). The parties agreed that in so far as the tribunal had decided that holiday pay should be calculated without taking account of voluntary overtime, thi...
Brexit Bites - Part 2: Dealing with harassment in the workplace post-referendum
Brexit Bites - Part 2: Dealing with harassment in the workplace post-referendum As we are well aware, until Article 50 has been triggered and the process of negotiation and formal exit has been comple...
Recent Cases
Indirect discrimination: no need to show why claimant disadvantaged
...employment tribunal decided at a preliminary hearing that he had to prove why the pass rate was lower amongst BME candidates and those over the age of 35 and the reason they failed the test. The case ...
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Payment to settle part-time working claim taxable as earnings
...employment rights, the employment was still the source of the payment and so it was taxable as earnings. Implications Where compensation is paid to settle a discrimination claim arising ...
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Budget 2021: Furlough extended and other measures affecting employers
Budget 2021: Furlough extended and other measures affecting employers The Chancellor has delivered his budget and confirmed that the coronavirus job retention scheme will continue until 30 September t...
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Why is menopause a workplace issue?
...employment tribunal claims. If the employee has two years’ service, they will have unfair dismissal protection. Employees are also protected against discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 from the...
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Election Manifestos: Issues for Employers
...Employment tribunal fees Labour will “abolish the employment tribunal fee system as part of wider reforms to make sure that affordability is not a barrier to workers having proper access to justice”....
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Conservatives Publish their General Election Manifesto
...Employment status and the gig economy The Conservatives promise that the interests of those working in the gig economy, those working on traditional contracts and the self-employed will all be proper...
Recent Cases
Dishonesty Dismissals: More Thorough Investigation Required
...employment tribunal found his dismissal fair. On appeal, S argued that the allegations reflected seriously on his character and in those circumstances a reasonable investigation required more than en...
Recent Cases
Harassment: context is key
...Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), arguing that the employment tribunal hadn’t properly considered whether the comment was “related to” religion. Decision The EAT rejected his appeal. It ...
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Discrimination: no continuing act if alleged acts not discriminatory
...Employment Appeal Tribunal. Employment Appeal Tribunal overturns tribunal decision The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the Trust’s appeal. The tribunal had found that the only detrimen...
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Right to request a predictable working pattern
...employment, which is likely to be 26 weeks. Where an agency worker is applying to a hirer, they will also need to have worked in the same role with the hirer continuously for 12 weeks. Employer dut...
Recent Cases
Enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay is not direct sex discrimination
...employment tribunal upheld his claim but the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has now overturned the tribunal’s decision. When comparing the treatment of a man and a woman in a case of se...
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Tackling gender inequality: Government Equalities Office outlines plans
...Employment tribunals have had the power since October 2014 to order an employer that loses an equal pay claim to undertake an equal pay audit and publish the results. It will also review ...
Furloughed employees entitled to redundancy and notice payments based on full pay
...employment contract. Statutory redundancy payments Employees with two or more years’ service at the date the employment terminates are entitled to statutory redundancy payments, calculated by refere...
Lockdown 3: workplace implications
...Employment Support Allowance. Examples given in the guidance of jobs which employees cannot reasonably do from home include, but are not limited to, national infrastructure, construction ...