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Welcome to our Employment Law Newsletter.  The Employment Rights Bill alone (announced in October) would give us plenty to discuss, but there’s plenty more for you in this issue.

What you’ll find in this issue of our newsletter:

• We all knew to expect significant employment law changes from a Labour government.  The detail of their plans was revealed in their Employment Rights Bill on 10 October and Luke Menzies summarises this pivotal legislation in the first of a series of blogs.
• Details of the Consultations on key provisions of the Employment Rights Bill – your chance to have a say.
• The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) 2023 came into force on 26 October 2024 placing a proactive a duty on employers  to ‘take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment’ of employees in the course of their employment. It provides for an (up to 25%) uplift in compensation should an employer be found to have breached their duty.  The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have updated their technical guidance supporting the legislation which we’ve summarised for you.
• 6 recent employment cases and their implications for employers on topics like disability discrimination, constructive unfair dismissal, fire and re-hire and associative discrimination.
• A reminder of the new National Minimum Wage increases for 2025 announced in the recent budget.

Until next time,

Best wishes from the Menzies Law team

Employment Cases:

• Cairns v Royal Mail Group, a disability discrimination case offers reminders to employers to consider all new information through the dismissal process, including at appeal
• Constructive unfair dismissal is considered by the EAT in Nelson v Renfrewshire Council
• The EAT in BA v Rollett confirms employees can bring a claim for indirect associative discrimination
• English Nationalism does not qualify as a protected belief says the EAT in Thomas v Surrey Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Taylor’s Services Limited v HMRC clarified the rules around National Minimum Wage and travel time
• The Supreme Court decision in the long running case of USDAW and others v Tesco