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Response published to consultation on corporate governance reforms

6 September 2017

5 September 2017

An ET rejects an employer’s argument that reinstatement was not practicable as a remedy for unfair dismissal and orders that the Claimant be reinstated with...

4 September 2017

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

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

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

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

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...

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

24 August 2017

23 August 2017

The EHRC have published a strategy to reduce pay gaps which has six recommendations outlining the action needed to improve equality in earnings for women,...

22 August 2017

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

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...

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Details of new Data Protection Bill published

17 August 2017

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