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  • Date:
    11 May 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Age discrimination - tips, traps and Tribunal cases

    Age discrimination can be a tricky area for employers. In this edition of the podcast, Susie Munro, Senior Legal Editor at XpertHR, leads us on a tour of recent cases that offer examples of how things can go wrong if they are mishandled and provides some tips on avoiding typical age-related traps.

  • Type:
    Editor's choice

    Employment law guides: The complete list

    Our Employment law guides provide accessible and constantly updated guidance on employment law, tailored to the needs of the HR professional. They are constantly updated by internal and external authors, who are experts in their field.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Age discrimination: Case law round-up

    We look at four cases in which dismissals of employees in their 50s or 60s were found to amount to direct age discrimination, including two where redundancies were rushed through to avoid enhanced pension payments.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to implement a lay-off or short-time working

    Practical guidance on implementing a lay-off or short-time working, including entitlement to guarantee payments and statutory redundancy pay.

  • Date:
    24 March 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2023 employment law changes: Four tasks for HR

    HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2023. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay.

  • Date:
    6 March 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: How to manage restructuring and redundancy in 2023

    The current economic climate is forcing businesses to make difficult decisions as they grapple with high inflation, a deflated economy and an increasing financial burden. Luke Bowery offers an overview of the legal framework and considers alternatives to redundancy.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Labour turnover rates: HR & Compliance Centre data 2023

    XpertHR presents the latest data on voluntary resignation and total labour turnover and looks at how these rates compare with recent years.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Dismissal for offensive tweets was unfair but compensation reduced by 100%

    In Weller v First MTR South Western Trains Ltd, an employment tribunal found that the dismissal of a train driver for offensive Twitter posts was unfair but declined to award any compensation.

  • Date:
    17 January 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Key employment cases of 2022/2023

    We reflect on the key decisions from last year and look forward to the case law trends likely to emerge in 2023. These include cases on: gender identity, holiday pay, coronavirus-related health and safety cases, industrial action, and dismissal and re-engagement.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Disability discrimination: Adjustments should have been made to redundancy selection process

    In Jandu v Marks and Spencer plc ET/2200275/21, an employment tribunal held that the retailer had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments by failing to discount any disability-related effects when assessing the employee against the redundancy selection criteria.