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It’s October and we don’t mean to spook you but there are some eerie developments afoot in the dark world of discrimination law. We shed some light on these in our case update and also ask you to tread carefully... Read more
What do we already know? We updated you in our August 2015 Newsletter Case update (2): Indirect discrimination – wider implications that the CJEU decided in the case of CHEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD v Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia that the concept of indirect discrimination (as set out... Read more
What do we already know? We updated you in our September 2015 Newsletter Government reforms (2): Enterprise Bill that the Government proposes to cap exit payments made to public sector workers to £95,000 in reforms which are most likely to take effect in October 2016... Read more
Summary: Is it a breach of an employee’s right to be accompanied for an employer to refuse to allow a disruptive trade union representative to act as a companion in any of its disciplinary or grievance hearings? Even when no... Read more
Did you know that 1 in 4 British adults will experience at least one diagnosable mental health problem in any year? Or that 11.3 million working days per year are lost due to work related stress – half because of... Read more
What do we already know? In our June Newsletter Government reforms (1): Family friendly – grandparents have rights too? we updated you that David Cameron had said during Prime Minister’s Question Time that he would look at Labour’s plans to allow grandparents to share their children’s ordinary parental leave. What’s... Read more
Facts: From 1 October 2015 drivers and passengers of private cars in England are banned from smoking in them if they are carrying children under 18 as passengers. Implications: Restrictions on smoking in company vehicles existed already, but did not... Read more
What do we already know? In our March 2015 Newsflash Gender pay gap – mandatory reporting we updated you that the Government’s voluntary equal pay reporting initiative, the Think, Act, Report framework (introduced in 2011), was to become compulsory. The Government planned to implement this by... Read more
ACAS has published new guidance on sexual orientation discrimination, available here . The guidance explains: what sexual orientation discrimination is; how such discrimination can happen; the key areas of employment where discrimination can happen; the importance of respecting an employee’s wish... Read more
Summary: Does time spent by peripatetic workers (i.e. those with no permanent work base) travelling from 1) home to their first job of the day and 2) from the last job of the day back home constitute working time for... Read more
Summary: Is an employee who is permanently off work due to sickness and receiving Permanent Health Insurance (PHI) “assigned to” a particular grouping of employees on a TUPE service provision change? No, held the EAT in BT Managed Services Ltd... Read more
Summary: What is the role and limitations of an employer’s HR department when providing advice to investigating and disciplinary officers? The EAT in Ramphal v Department for Transport (available here ) says that it is to advise on questions of law... Read more
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