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ET orders reinstatement with 2.7 years’ back pay and restoration of pension rights

5 September 2017

4 September 2017

Dismissal fair for telling a fasting colleague to hide food in his beard

A college lecturer, who told a colleague who was fasting during Ramadan that he should hide food in his beard to eat on the sly,...

1 September 2017

Updated guidance on right to work checks

The Home Office has published updated guidance on how to carry out right to work checks, why they need to be done and which documents...

31 August 2017

Argos named for underpaying £1.4m NMW/NLW to 12,176 workers

The BEIS have named around 230 employers for underpaying their workers the National Minimum or Living Wage, with one underpaying just over £1.4m to 12,000+...

30 August 2017

No announcement on tribunal fee refunds until September

The Government is still working on ‘detailed arrangements’ to refund employment tribunal fees and there will be no further announcement until September....

29 August 2017

£3,000 costs ordered for unreasonably pursuing a lawyer-derived claim

An ET orders a Claimant to pay £3,000 in costs after finding he had acted unreasonably in pursuing a lawyer-derived race discrimination claim, which was...

24 August 2017

Unlawfully accessing and disclosing personal data costs employee £1,700

A former health care assistant has been ordered to pay a total of £1,715 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to offences of unlawfully...

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EHRC publish strategy to reduce pay gaps containing six recommendations to improve equality in earnings

23 August 2017

22 August 2017

Whether stand-by time is working time depends on the quality of time

An EU AG has given an opinion that determination of whether time spent on stand-by is working time depends on the quality of personal time...

21 August 2017

No initial burden on claimant to prove discrimination occurred

The EAT has ruled that the burden of proof test under S.136 of the Equality Act 2010, unlike previous law, does not impose an initial...

17 August 2017

Details of new Data Protection Bill published

The Government has published a statement of intent to proceed the publication of the Data Protection Bill which will implement the EU General Data Protection...

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Director of Labour Market Enforcement warns rogue bosses of plans to use powers to jail worst offenders

16 August 2017

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