ONS ethnicity pay gap data for 2018 shows employees of Chinese, Indian and Mixed or Multiple ethnicity all had higher median hourly pay than White British employees, earning 30% more on average.
25 July 2019
The Government has launched a consultation which aims to gather evidence about whether the current laws on protecting people from sexual harassment in the workplace are effective.
24 July 2019
An ET finds that a disabled employee on long-term sickness was harassed when her manager made her feel that she was a nuisance and asked her how long “this disabled thing” was going to continue.
23 July 2019
The EAT hold that an employee's covert recording of a meeting with the Director of Resources was not a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence since it was not done with the intention of entrapment.
22 July 2019
A new TUC survey shows that 1 in 10 (9.6%) working-age adults now work via gig economy platforms at least once a week, compared to around 1 in 20 (4.7%) in 2016.
19 July 2019
The Government has published ‘Gender equality at every stage: a roadmap for change’, setting out the vision and actions to tackle the persistent gendered inequalities women and men face in their lives.
18 July 2019
The EAT confirm that disclosing information that a colleague was taking a patient's food was a protected whistleblowing disclosure because it related to a breach of a legal obligation and was in the public interest.
17 July 2019
The EAT hold that an employer was not liable for harassment where an employee posted a golliwog image on her private Facebook page because posting the message was not done in the course of her employment.
16 July 2019
In Page v NHS Trust Development Authority, P is a practising Christian. He was a Non-Executive Director of the Trust and a magistrate sitting on family cases involving adoption decisions. P holds the firm faith-based belief that it is “not normal” for a child to be adopted by a single-parent or a same-sex couple.
15 July 2019
Personnel Today report that male managers are increasingly feeling uncomfortable when mentoring, working one-to-one with and socialising with women at work, according to research conducted in the USA. The study revealed that 60% felt cautious with female colleagues in these situations
10 July 2019
