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£35,000 award to pregnant employee who raised concerns over long working hours

29 July 2019

25 July 2019

New ONS pay data shows Chinese ethnic group employees earn 30% more that White British employees

ONS ethnicity pay gap data for 2018 shows employees of Chinese, Indian and Mixed or Multiple ethnicity all had higher median hourly pay than White...

24 July 2019

Government launches consultation on sexual harassment in the workplace

The Government has launched a consultation which aims to gather evidence about whether the current laws on protecting people from sexual harassment in the workplace...

23 July 2019

Asking how long “this disabled thing” was going to go on was harassment

An ET finds that a disabled employee on long-term sickness was harassed when her manager made her feel that she was a nuisance and asked...

22 July 2019

Secretly recording a meeting was not gross misconduct as no intention to entrap

The EAT hold that an employee's covert recording of a meeting with the Director of Resources was not a breach of the implied term of...

19 July 2019

UK’s gig economy workforce has doubled since 2016

A new TUC survey shows that 1 in 10 (9.6%) working-age adults now work via gig economy platforms at least once a week, compared to...

18 July 2019

Government publishes roadmap for gender equality

The Government has published ‘Gender equality at every stage: a roadmap for change’, setting out the vision and actions to tackle the persistent gendered inequalities...

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Allegation patient’s food was being taken was a protected whistleblowing disclosure

17 July 2019

16 July 2019

Sharing potential racially offensive image on Facebook not done in course of employment

The EAT hold that an employer was not liable for harassment where an employee posted a golliwog image on her private Facebook page because posting...

15 July 2019

Removal for expressing faith-based objection to same-sex adoption was not discriminatory

In Page v NHS Trust Development Authority, P is a practising Christian. He was a Non-Executive Director of the Trust and a magistrate sitting on...

10 July 2019

USA study finds men feeling increasingly uncomfortable working with women in some situations

Personnel Today report that male managers are increasingly feeling uncomfortable when mentoring, working one-to-one with and socialising with women at work, according to research conducted...

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ET statistics for January to March 2019 show single claims increased by 6%

8 July 2019

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