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Only six minimum wage prosecutions in the past six years …

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The total value of declared taxable benefits in kind was £10 …

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An employee with less than two years service may claim unlimited compensation if they resign due to harassment and successfully claim constructive dismissal …

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A joint discussion paper issued by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Bank of England contains a proposal to introduce diversity monitoring into the financial sector …

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The provisions under Section 19(1) of the Equality Act 2010 whereby an individual employee suffers indirect discrimination due to “a provision, criteria or practice (PCP)” requiring the employee to work certain hours has been around now on the statute book for over a decade, but employers will undoubtedly experience more such challenges under the coming post-pandemic litigious environment …

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The supermarket chain Asda has announced that it is moving to an all-electric company car fleet by June 2025 …

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Although there has been a gradual return of growth across the economy, the overall picture to date has been muted …

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Last October, the government asked the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) to undertake a fact-finding exercise into the practice of “fire and rehire“, especially during the pandemic period …

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The accounting firm PwC has established a new “Fertility Leave” policy …

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A claim made by the Independent Workers Union for delivery personnel working for Deliveroo, to be subject to a collective agreement has been denied by the London Court of Appeal …

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The establishment of equal pay comparisons across different job functions and locations was given new clarity by the Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley case …

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The first ever published ethnicity pay gap report by the catering group Sodexo has revealed that in 2020 “Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnic (BAME)” employees in the UK and Ireland earned, on average, 5% less than ethnically white employees …

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The retailing Group John Lewis will be introducing this Autumn a new right to six months paid parental leave for all employees on the birth of their child …

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We do not normally report court of first instance (Employment Tribunal) cases because they do not constitute legal precedents and can so readily be reversed on Appeal …

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The UK economy continues to shrink, with GDP down 1 …

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