The Fit for Work service has announced that from 15 December 2017, Fit for Work will no longer be running its referral and assessment service. All of the advice and guidance elements of Fit for Work remain in place.
| Published: 21 December 2017
The Equality and Human Rights Commission have published new practical guidance for employers on sexual harassment in the workplace.
| Published: 20 December 2017
In Various Claimants and WM Morrisons Supermarket PLC, Andrew Skelton, a former internal auditor, copied payroll data relating to 99,998 employees to a USB stick and then posted the personal details online.
| Published: 19 December 2017
In King v The Sash Window Workshop Ltd, the ECJ had to consider how the EU Working Time Directive applied to a reference from the UK’s Court of Appeal about King’s case, where he had not taken or been paid for annual holiday from 1999 to 2012 because he had been wrongly categorised as self-employed, when in fact he was a ‘worker’.
| Published: 18 December 2017
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to Chairs of the FTSE 100 saying it will take legal action where there is evidence of systemic failing in preventing, or dealing with, sexual harassment.
| Published: 14 December 2017
The Government Equalities Office has published a toolkit for employers giving advice on how to understand and address their gender pay gap, which sets out a four-step ‘to do’ list.
| Published: 13 December 2017
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain has filed a test case against the University of London that could broaden the trade union rights of outsourced workers.
| Published: 12 December 2017
The EAT holds that by not giving an employee the real reason for dismissal to try and “soften the blow”, the employer misled him, and this breach of trust and confidence gave rise to an entitlement to damages.
| Published: 11 December 2017
The DWP have published the proposed benefit rates for 2018 to 2019, which will apply from April 2018, with the four family-friendly weekly standard leave payments (SAP, SMP, SPP and SSPP) increasing to £145.18.
| Published: 7 December 2017
The Government has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations for increases to the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage hourly rates, to come into force in April 2018.
| Published: 6 December 2017
