S.16 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 came into force on 6 April 2014, inserting new S.12A into the Employment Tribunals Act 1996, giving tribunals the power to order an employer, who has lost at tribunal, to pay a financial penalty of up to £5,000 to the Secretary of State, where the case has "aggravating features".
| Published: 23 January 2015
Following consultation, Acas has made a small revision to the Code of Practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures to take into account of the EAT decision in the case of Toal v GB Oils on the right of accompaniment to disciplinary and grievance hearings.
| Published: 23 January 2015
BIS has published an updated version of the 'Employers’ Technical Guide to Shared Parental Leave and Pay'.
| Published: 23 January 2015
Caste is not a "protected characteristic" under S.9 of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010), and therefore not expressly prohibited as a ground for discrimination or harassment.
| Published: 23 January 2015
From April 2015, the Government is rolling out an older workers’ champion scheme across every part of the UK to tackle the age discrimination which the Government believes can force them into the much higher levels of long-term unemployment than their younger counterparts.
| Published: 16 January 2015
A website has been launched providing information to complement the Fit for Work service which will be provided under the terms of a Government funded contract awarded to Health Management Limited and which is aimed at providing occupational health assessments and assisting employees who have been absent for four weeks or more to return to work, which was one of the key recommendations made by Dame Carol Black's major review of sickness absence in 2011.
| Published: 16 January 2015
People are being put off holding unfair employers to account by too-high fees and a lack of awareness about support, according to new findings based on a survey of 361 people who have been having problems at work.
| Published: 16 January 2015
In Yapp v Foreign and Commonwealth Office the Court of Appeal (CA) held that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was in breach of contract when it withdrew Yapp from his position without conducting a preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual mis
| Published: 16 January 2015
The Ministry of Justice has published Tribunals and Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics Quarterly - July to September 2014, which includes key overall statistics relating to the volume of tribunal cases received, disposed of or outstanding for July to September 2014.
| Published: 3 January 2015
The Government has announced that it is taking action to reduce potential costs to employers and give certainty to workers on their rights following the recent EAT ruling in Bear v Fulton and two other co-joined cases, that holiday pay should reflect non-guaranteed overtime.
| Published: 3 January 2015
