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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated to include information on the protection against hate crime in Scotland.
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- Date:
- 14 May 2020
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- Commentary and insights
With penalties for failing to publish gender pay gap reports for 2019/20 suspended due to the pandemic, and a lack of clarity about reporting dates for 2020/21, Jo Faragher examines the data and fears that equality may fall off the agenda for some companies.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In NH v Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI, the European Court of Justice held that a senior lawyer's comments on a radio programme that he would not wish to recruit homosexual people fell within the scope of the Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) even though his firm was not recruiting, or planning to recruit, at the time.
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- Date:
- 5 May 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
With social distancing guidelines and the increase in remote working due to the coronavirus, employers have been forced to rethink how they recruit and select staff. Graham Brown reports on the rise of video interviews and remote onboarding of new starters.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Rakova v London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer's failure to provide a disabled employee with software updates may amount to a breach of the duty to make reasonable adjustments.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
XpertHR research provides data on employers' strategies, priorities and practices around diversity and inclusion.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Allen v Paradigm Precision Burnley Ltd and another, an employment tribunal found that homophobic comments made by colleagues to to a gay employee amounted to sexual orientation harassment.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Munro v Sampson Coward LLP, the employment tribunal held that an employer's act of sending a birthday card to an employee was "an act of kindness" and not an act of discrimination.
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- Date:
- 10 March 2020
- Type:
- Case studies
The Metropolitan Police Service talks to XpertHR about its women returner programme, which is encouraging female police officers to return to the force after a career break.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Kirk v Citibank NA and others, an employment tribunal held that a senior banker who was dismissed following a redundancy process was subjected to direct age discrimination and unfairly dismissed.