In Donovan v GE Aviation Systems Ltd a tribunal found that the employer was justified in requiring a senior financial manager's job to be done on a full-time basis as it was a proportionate means of achieving a compelling business aim.
| Published: 20 October 2011
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a new, free training and education resource, Equal Rights, Equal Respect. While this is aimed at teachers to help teach equality and human rights in schools, it is a useful reference point for all forms of diversity training.
| Published: 20 October 2011
The TUC's latest equality audit, covering 97% of all TUC-affiliated unions, reveals how unions have made significant progress in taking equality into consideration in their rules and structures, organising activities, membership services and employment practices.
| Published: 20 October 2011
A new report, published by RNIB, with a foreword by Acas Chief Executive John Taylor, demonstrates that keeping a newly disabled person in employment has a cost benefit of 2.5 times an employer's investment
| Published: 20 October 2011
The Prime Minister has challenged more businesses to set out their plans to increase female representation at senior levels.
| Published: 20 October 2011
The Prime Minister has challenged more businesses to set out their plans to increase female representation at senior levels.
| Published: 20 October 2011
In Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust v Watkinson the EAT agreed with a tribunal that a former NHS Trust chief executive was automatically unfairly dismissed for making a protected disclosure as there was “clear evidence” which inferred that the Health Authority put pressure on the Trust to dismiss him for whistleblowing.
| Published: 28 September 2011
The Department for Business Innovation & Skills have published a discussion paper on the governance of executive remuneration in quoted companies.
| Published: 28 September 2011
The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that Munir Yakub Patel should be prosecuted under the Bribery Act 2010 in relation to allegations of misconduct during his employment. He is the first person to be prosecuted under the new Act.
| Published: 28 September 2011
The Judiciary of England and Wales has published a revised guide to judicial conduct. The guide offers assistance to judges on conduct issues, rather than prescribing a detailed code.
| Published: 28 September 2011
