A PwC study of just over 100 employers has found that the percentage of companies surveyed now collecting ethnicity data on their people is up to 67% from 53% in 2018.
24 September 2020
CIPD People Management report that 46% of key workers have blown the whistle on their employer for engaging in dangerous workplace practices during the coronavirus pandemic, according to research by law firm Slater and Gordon.
23 September 2020
The Department of Health & Social Care have published guidance for employers and third-party healthcare providers on Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing. The guidance points out that it is a voluntary decision for employers to run testing programmes for their staff and if done correctly, testing can provide confidence to employees and customers in the workplace and may help to protect business continuity.
22 September 2020
In Sullivan v Bury Street Capital Limited, from about July 2013, following a split with a Ukrainian girlfriend, S suffered paranoid delusions that he was being followed and stalked by a Russian gang. These delusions affected his timekeeping, attendance and record-keeping.
21 September 2020
The BBC report that HM Revenue and Customs has told MPs on the Public Accounts Committee it estimates up to £3.5bn in Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme payments may have been claimed fraudulently or paid out in error.
17 September 2020
Diggins v Bar Standards Board highlights the issues employers are currently facing when employees use their personal social media accounts to degrade others. A young black female Cambridge University student posted on Twitter that:
16 September 2020
Some employers involved in redundancy programmes are placing those made redundant on a list of people who would be offered an opportunity to return if business picks up as they have the experience, knowledge and skills required.
15 September 2020
Morales v Premier Fruits (Covent Garden) Ltd is one of the first reported cases to be heard by an ET relating to coronavirus issues. In specified categories of automatically unfair dismissal claims, including trade union membership/activity and whistleblowing, an ET can grant an employee interim relief, i.e. an order requiring the employer to continue to employ the employee until the case is heard.
14 September 2020
he CIPD have responded to the Government’s campaign for individuals to return to their workplace stating that this should not leave them feeling pressured or duty-bound to do so. As the CiPD have been consistently advising, any employer contemplating such a return should only do so by using the following three considerations:
10 September 2020
The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2020 have come into force providing that anyone who is advised that they should self-isolate prior to a planned or elective surgical or other hospital procedure can be deemed to be incapable of work, and therefore potentially be eligible for SSP, for up to 14 days.
9 September 2020
