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  • Statutory pay - and bullying claims – go up

    Employment
    Employment
    Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, looks at employment law changes and case law in November and December. The unexpected keeps happening. The new Job Support Scheme was replaced at the 11th hour by a reintroduced Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme , and ...
    • 16 Dec 2020
  • Employment law updates: Preserving jobs through JSS and tribunal rulings on fair treatment

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD Rules and regulations can’t always keep pace with real life. The UK Government’s new Job Support Scheme, announced on 24 September, is already having to be extended to support businesses forced to ...
    • 16 Oct 2020
  • Redundancy, pay related court rulings and contracts

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD.For months, people professionals have been preoccupied with workforce safety, and now some are also having to turn their attention to making redundancies. Both tasks require them to check regulations while kee...
    • 12 Aug 2020
  • Through COVID-19, UK employment law rumbled on

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD  At the beginning of April most organisations’ attention was fixed on how Coronavirus would affect our everyday lives . Managers were...
    • 3 Jun 2020
  • Veganism: the new religion?

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst With perfect timing, Veganuary was ushered in this year with a ‘landmark’ judgment on ‘ethical veganism’. The case, Casamitjana v League Against Cruel Sports, involves a zoologist who was the...
    • 20 Feb 2020
  • How confidentiality can lead to cover-ups

    Employment
    Employment
    Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) seem to be the latest celebrity ‘must haves’. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ judge Craig Revel Horwood recently revealed on daytime TV that he had asked people who work for him, his builder, and even ...
    • 3 Dec 2018
  • The Blawg: Who’s responsible for employees’ wrongdoings?

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst Consider this scenario. One of your employees maliciously posts the payroll data of 100,000 staff – names and addresses, bank account details and salaries – to a file sharing website. He also sends the ...
    • 1 Nov 2018
  • How will employment law change post-Brexit?

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst While the political maelstrom continues to surround Brexit, practical aspects, such as how organisations will operate after the UK leaves the EU, don’t grab the headlines often enough. It’s still unclea...
    • 19 Sep 2018
  • Does sleep-in time count for the NMW?

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD Court cases decided in employers’ favour can sometimes leave organisations feeling no better off. The Court of Appeal recently had to decide, in Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake, whether care assis...
    • 29 Aug 2018
  • Do we need new rules on employment status?

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst The gig economy continues to blur the lines between legal definitions of employment status that weren’t that clear in the first place. Short-term, flexible and independent working has always featured in the l...
    • 26 Jul 2018
  • GDPR: the final countdown!

    Employment
    Employment
    By Holly Ivins, Law Content Analyst at the CIPD The new General Data Protection Regulations come into force on 25 May 2018. The new rules are intended to meet the needs of a digital age, and require a change in organisational attitude towards data p...
    • 8 May 2018
  • Time’s running out for gender pay gap reporting

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD Sex inequality at work is barely out of the headlines these days. But usually what we’re reading about is either fresh allegations of sexual harassment in one sector or another, or continuing fallout fr...
    • 2 Mar 2018
  • Confused about GDPR? No need to panic

    Employment
    Employment
    By Toni McAlindin, barrister and CIPD tutor Out of nowhere, employers have suddenly become interested in data protection. Having lectured for over 20 years on the subject, it all seems rather bizarre. Of course, it is not because employers have sud...
    • 28 Nov 2017
  • Uber drivers are ‘workers’ – but why does this matter?

    Employment
    Employment
    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) recently decided that drivers working for the taxi app, Uber, are not self-employed as the company maintained, with no employment rights, but workers, entitled to paid hol...
    • 14 Nov 2017
  • How to prepare for GDPR 2018

    Employment
    Employment
    By Sandra Madigan, Law Content Manager HR, CIPD As you work through your organisation assessments in readiness for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), take stock and consider the Data Protection Bill, which came out this month . The Bill a...
    • 3 Oct 2017
  • Knowing the law and getting it right

    Employment
    Employment
    By Sandra Madigan, Law Content Manager HR, CIPD Following the introduction of the employment tribunal fee system in July 2013, claims dropped dramatically, by over 70 per cent. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the requirement to pay a fe...
    • 22 Sep 2017
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