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- Date:
- 5 February 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Following significant changes in autumn 2024, the Government's Employment Rights Act 2025 promises further reforms to the harassment laws, including the introduction of explicit new third-party harassment liability. Employment judge Tina Elliott looks at the history of third-party harassment law, the current position and the changes on the horizon.
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- Date:
- 4 February 2025
- Type:
- News
Asda workers fighting for equal pay have advanced to the final stage in their legal battle, as the employment tribunal ruled some of their jobs are of equal value to the jobs of their colleagues in Asda's distribution centres.??
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- Date:
- 28 January 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Motherhood is at the heart of a lot of policies in the contemporary workplace, where the narrative often focuses around an ideal that everyone is or wants to be a mother. This can be incredibly excluding for non-mothers. It's great to provide policies and benefits that support parents, says Caroline Green, but how can you supplement your support for everyone else?
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
We look at three cases where employers have lost "discrimination arising from disability" claims after treating workers unfavourably because of disability-related absence.
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- Date:
- 11 December 2024
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Laura Kimpton, HR strategy and practice editor at Brightmine, discusses how organisations, and line managers in particular, can support and champion neurodiversity in the workplace.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
The Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) is consulting on introducing mandatory gender, ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for employers in Northern Ireland with 250 or more employees.
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- Date:
- 6 December 2024
- Type:
- News
A consultation has been launched in Northern Ireland on gender, ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.
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- Date:
- 4 December 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In the first of a new series delving into the details of the Employment Rights Act 2025, we look at the plan to require large employers to publish an action plan on the steps that they are taking to address the gender pay gap and support employees going through the menopause.
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- Date:
- 25 November 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Although the formal Bill is yet to be published, the Government has outlined plans to require organisations with 250 and more employees to report their ethnicity and disability pay data. To prepare HR leaders for this change, Brightmine and HR Grapevine convened a roundtable discussion to address the practical and cultural challenges of expanded pay gap reporting.
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- Date:
- 21 November 2024
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
In this 30 minute fireside chat, Penne Cecil Hutton, Compensation Planning Expert at Brightmine, talks to Kate Taylor, People Project Lead at National Deaf Children's Society, about the journey they went through to implement a robust compensation and rewards strategy that met their unique business needs.