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TUC issue advice on tackling workplace stress

8 January 2016

8 January 2016

Complaint about contractual term can be a disclosure in the public interest

Whistleblowing legislation was amended for disclosures made on or after 25 June 2013 so that they must be made “in the public interest”....

8 January 2016

New measures to eradicate gender pay inequality

In July of this year, the Prime Minister confirmed that part of the plan to end the gender pay gap included requiring companies with more...

8 January 2016

Organisations pledge to ‘name blind’ recruiting to reduce potential for discrimination

The Prime Minister has announced that a group of organisations have pledged to operate recruitment on ‘name blind’ basis, reducing the potential for discrimination....

8 January 2016

Action needed to reduce disability employment gap, says TUC

A new TUC report Disability and employment, looks at the experiences of disabled people in the labour market and finds that they are still at...

8 January 2016

Home Office issues updated employer guidance on right to work checks

.Under sections 15 to 25 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, employers have a duty to prevent illegal working in the UK by...

8 January 2016

No implied contractual duty to report own misconduct

In The Basildon Academies v Amadi, Mr Amadi (‘A’) worked two days a week for Basildon Academies (BAc)....

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Acas publish on-line guidance on calculating statutory holiday pay

8 January 2016

8 January 2016

Government considering review of employment tribunal fees

In an answer to a question asked by Caroline Lucas MP as to when the Secretary of State for Justice plans to conduct a review...

8 January 2016

Dismissal for stating homosexuality is a sin was discriminatory

In Mbuyi v Newpark Childcare (Shepherds Bush) Ltd, Miss Mbuyi (M) is a devout Christian. One of M’s colleagues, LP, is a lesbian, living in...

8 January 2016

Travelling from home to first customer and to home from last customer is ‘working time’, according to AG

In Federación de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.) and Tyco Integrated Security SL and Tyco Integrated Fire & Security Corporation Servicios SA, a...

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Government to review impact of Employment Tribunal fees and fee remission scheme

8 January 2016

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