Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to United Kingdom as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
United Kingdom: Inflation remains stuck at 8.7%
Food continues to drive up consumer prices …
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United Kingdom: Is the current legal framework sufficient to expose wrongdoing at work?
The UK was one of the first countries in the World to introduce specific legislation to protect whistleblowers …
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United Kingdom: London Living Wage becomes comparator in indirect race discrimination case
In Boohene and others v Royal Parks Ltd [2023], the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) illustrated the dangers of a tribunal responding too readily to a claim of indirect race discrimination via a comparison between the pay rates of directly employed staff and those employed by a contractor …
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United Kingdom: Employee transferred and was not seconded to union job
In Fire Brigades Union v Embery [2023] EAT 51, a fireman had been released from their job in order to become a full-time officer of the Union …
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United Kingdom: Three Bills gain Royal Assent
The Bills were all introduced by individual Members of Parliament …
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United Kingdom: New obligation to prevent fraud
HR professions in companies with 250+ employees will soon face the prospect of being a party to a criminal offence if they do not take specific actions to prevent fraud …
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United Kingdom: New guidelines following consultation about working environment
It is somewhat ironic that those we consult about upholding the law should be part of a culture which has too often dishonoured it …
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United Kingdom: ACAS survey reveals redundancy plans
The state-owned Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) recently commissioned the pollster ‘YouGov’ to carry out a survey of redundancy plans in UK companies for the coming year …
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United Kingdom: Greater fairness at work
The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 has now gained Royal Assent, although it still awaits full implementation …
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United Kingdom: Measures to improve minimum wage compliance
Various estimates exist about the number of workers who are underpaid relative to their entitlements under the national minimum wage/national living wage …
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United Kingdom: New policy on post-Brexit employment law
The government has issued a paper outlining what it calls a Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy …
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United Kingdom: Why are more employees ‘going sick’?
The time lost due to sickness rose to 185 million working days last year …
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United Kingdom: Guidance on positive action
The guidance outlines the scope for undertaking special measures and initiatives as set out in the Equality Act 2010 …
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United Kingdom: Ethnicity pay gap reporting
The government has published guidance on how to introduce such pay gap reporting on a voluntary basis …
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United Kingdom: Signs of an ongoing pandemic
Although excess mortalities have largely died out across the European Union, indicating a sharp tailing off of the COVID-19 pandemic – the two major exceptions are Greece and Cyprus …
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