Whether you’re now a proper Gender Pay Gap (GPG) ‘geek’ and are all ready to report your GPG data, confident that you’ve crunched the right numbers, or you’ve not even starting thinking about your GPG, your immediate next step once you’ve reported and published your figures ought to be the same. And that’s digging down…
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For all of you responsible for reporting your organisation’s Gender Pay Gap (GPG), it’s time to get cracking. Your ‘snapshot’ pay date has come and gone (where did the time go?) and the Government’s GPG reporting website is up and running.  A few brave employers have even posted their data already, with Sense Scotland claiming…
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The IR35 legislation has been with us since 1999 but has just hit the headlines again and may become a live issue for a number of our public sector clients. IR35 was introduced by HMRC as a measure to prevent the tax avoidance situation whereby a contractor who would otherwise have been deemed to be…
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In the first part of our trade union law series, we looked at the recent changes in TU law and how they could affect your business. This time we’re looking at the tricky business of maintaining a healthy and mutually beneficial relationship with your TU. At Menzies Law we have over 20 years’ experience of…
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Manifesto promises and climb-downs? There is something about the trade union movement that has always engendered strong feelings in this country (both for and against) and you don’t need to read the papers often to see how much interest there inevitably is in strike action (the junior doctors and Southern trains, being two very high profile…
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“Never discuss religion or politics”. This sage advice has been around for at least a century. But in these days of Brexit and Trump, politics seems harder and harder to avoid and religion has got wrapped up in it in a way it hasn’t been – or at least not in the UK – for…
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As you can tell, I do love a list. Step by step guide to planning your difficult conversations First, you need to know what you are dealing with. Why do you want to speak with this employee? Is it because, for example: They have already brought a grievance/several grievances in the workplace? They have been…
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There are quite a lot of things we don’t yet know about the Gender Pay Gap figures that all larger employers are shortly going to have to calculate and publish.  The long-promised ACAS guidance on how precisely to calculate and publish continues to tease us with its own lack of publication and I must admit…
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In my recent blog How to protect your difficult conversations with employees Part 1, I looked at the ‘without prejudice’ rule and the newer statutory ‘pre-termination negotiations’ rule, their similarities and their key differences. In this part 2 of my blog I am going to look at how you can use either or both regimes…
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Question:  What do Denise Brewster and Fatemad Reshad have in common? Answer:  Both are very recent beneficiaries of the exercise of judicial control over executive power. Meaning what, exactly? Well, Fatemad is an Iranian infant who travelled to the US this week to undergo potentially life-saving heart surgery at a Portland hospital. Her planned treatment…
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