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What do we already know? We have been keeping you up to date on the Government’s proposals to introduce new gender pay reporting requirements and how our Gender Pay Gap Audit service can help you with this. For an overview of the reporting requirements see... Read more
Summary: Can type 2 diabetes be a disability? Yes, says the EAT in Taylor v Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Ltd available here . Background: Under the Equality Act 2010, a person has a disability if they have a physical or mental... Read more
Happy New Year and welcome to our first Newsletter of 2017. We hope you are all surviving the cold and managing to still maintain just one or two of your New Year’s resolutions. If one of those resolutions is to... Read more
Summary: Can a contractual mobility clause enable an employer to avoid dismissing employees for redundancy? Yes, but only if the terms of the mobility clause and the manner in which the employer operates the clause are reasonable. The EAT’s decision... Read more
The Government has launched a new website, available here , which allows the public to view the gender pay gap by profession. The website suggests that the highest pay gaps are in the construction and finance industries. There is also an... Read more
A draft revised Code of Practice on industrial action ballots and notice to employers has been published, available here . The revisions relate to new requirements that will be introduced by the Trade Union Act 2016. These concern ballot turnouts and... Read more
The Government has published the Access to Work eligibility letter for employees and employers, available here . The letter is intended to assist employees who consider that they might be entitled to support under the scheme. The Access to Work scheme... Read more
ACAS has published Guidance, available here , that seeks to raise awareness of the cost of social exclusion in the workplace. According to the Guidance, social exclusion at work can have a negative impact on employees’ performance levels, confidence and wellbeing.... Read more
Summary: In cases of re-engagement, whose belief in the breakdown of trust and confidence between employer and employee is the most critical; the Tribunal’s or the employer’s? The employer’s, says the EAT in United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v... Read more
What do we already know? We updated you in our October 2016 Newsflash Apprenticeship levy that HMRC had published the first set of draft regulations for the calculation, payment and recovery of the Apprenticeship Levy, for a period of technical consultation, available here... Read more
What do we already know? We have been keeping you up to date on the Government’s proposals to introduce new gender pay reporting requirements and how our Gender Pay Gap Audit service can help you with this. For an overview of the reporting requirements see... Read more
Summary: Can expired warnings ever be taken into account when dismissing an employee? Yes, sometimes, says the EAT in Stratford v Auto Trail VR Ltd available here . Facts: The employee, Mr Stratford started work for the employer, Auto Trail VR... Read more
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