Acas has published its first half year update on Early Conciliation which shows that the service has dealt with 37,404 cases from 6 April until the end of September 2014.
| Published: 1 December 2014
New figures published by the Health and Safety Executive show workplace illness and injury rates in 2013/14.
| Published: 24 November 2014
Town halls will have to come clean on how much they spend subsidising staff working on union business rather than frontline services, after new rules came into force to boost local transparency.
| Published: 24 November 2014
Cases involving a breach of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR) are rare, but the tribunal’s decision in Stevens v Northolt High School ET/3300621/2014 shows how hirers can be liable where the agency worker is not paid the same amount as a permanent worker doing an equivalent job when the contract goes beyond 12 weeks.
| Published: 24 November 2014
The internet can be a valuable source of knowledge acquisition, but the dangers of relying on medical information obtained by surfing the Web, without taking advice from health professionals, has been highlighted by the EAT’s decision in East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust v Sanders.
| Published: 24 November 2014
Public Concern at Work (PCAW) has published its whistleblowing report for 2013.
| Published: 14 November 2014
The Government’s Equalities Office has announced that a £2 million fund has been put in place to address concerns that there are still significant pay gaps among part-time and older workers and that women are concentrated in less well-paid professions than men.
| Published: 14 November 2014
The Daily Telegraph has reported that a male manager, Erik Pietzka, who asked to work part-time so he could look after his daughter, has won a sex discrimination case after his request was rejected.
| Published: 14 November 2014
Acas has published its response to the Government's consultation on banning exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts
| Published: 14 November 2014
Under S.26(1) of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010) harassment occurs where there is unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic which has the purpose (intentionally) or the effect (unintentionally) of violating a person’s dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for an employee.
| Published: 14 November 2014
