In September last year the Government concluded its consultation on regulations which will require companies with 250 or more employees to carry out an equal pay review and publish their gender pay gap. After much discussion about how the data will be presented and calculated, the Government has published the Read more…
Not necessarily, according to the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling in Kelly v Covance Laboratories Ltd, which will be of interest to employers with an increasingly diverse workforce. Covance Laboratories Ltd (R) operated animal testing in their laboratories and had been subject to unwelcome attention from animal rights activists including Read more…
It is common for organisations with HR departments to heavily involve HR in disciplinary, grievance and redundancy processes. Indeed, one might say that is the whole point of having an HR department in the first place. To what extent though should the HR manager confine themselves to advice on procedure Read more…
HR and people managers who regularly deal with disciplinary and grievance issues will be familiar with the situation where an employee requests to be accompanied to an internal hearing by someone who isn’t a trade union representative or work colleague. The usual position is that they do not have this right Read more…
The Government has launched a consultation on regulations which will require companies with 250 or more employees to carry out an equal pay review and publish their gender pay gap. Until now, the government’s power under Section 78 of the Equality Act 2010 (to make regulations requiring mandatory gender pay gap reporting) Read more…
In the latest in a seemingly never ending run of cases involving misconduct through social media, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has recently ruled in British Waterways Broad v Smith, that it was fair to dismiss an employee for derogatory comments made about his employer on Facebook, even when the Read more…
In the latest in a long line of cases on the interaction of sickness leave and holiday leave, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has given some welcome guidance on whether an employee off sick needs to request to take leave and if it is not taken, how long it needs to Read more…
Following on from the success of a previous popular blog on employer’s obligations to sleeping employees and whether it is permissible to pay a flat rate for sleep overs, this blog brings you the very latest on the issue. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has recently updated Read more…
To what extent can a Tribunal look into previous written warnings given to an employee when deciding whether a subsequent dismissal was fair? It is unusual to see the Court of Appeal (CA) overturn an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision which upheld the initial decision of the Tribunal, but this Read more…
Following on from our blog in January which outlined the three major political parties’ intentions in relation to employment law following the general election on 7 May, now that the full manifestos have been published, what more do we know about the main proposals? You will probably all be aware that Employment Read more…