Equality, diversity and human rights

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Is long COVID a disability under the Equality Act 2010?

• Date:

  14 March 2022

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  April 2022 employment law changes: Six tasks for HR

  HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2022. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay, and the end of HMRC's IR35 enforcement "grace period".

• Date:

  2 March 2022

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Staff with long Covid should be treated as having disability

  Employers should treat all staff who have long Covid as if they have a disability, in the absence of clear legislative protections for people with lingering symptoms which can affect their performance at work.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disciplinary hearing: Rescheduling and holding by phone is reasonable adjustment

  In Hayes v Rendall & Rittner Ltd, an employment tribunal held that it would have been a reasonable adjustment for the employer to reschedule a disciplinary hearing and to have it heard by telephone.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Difficult pregnancies and pregnancy loss: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at four employment tribunal cases in which the claimants successfully argued that they were discriminated against during difficult pregnancies and pregnancy loss.

• Date:

  3 February 2022

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Don't forget workers with disabilities in your D&I efforts

  Most organisations would consider themselves open to increasing inclusion and belonging for all employees. However, too often diversity initiatives fail to focus on workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities, explains Agata Nowakowska.

• Date:

  25 January 2022

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Key 2022 employment cases

  We highlight key cases due to be decided in 2022 and discuss their impact on HR. These include cases on: vicarious liability, holiday pay, agency workers, compulsory retirement ages, and coronavirus-related health and safety cases. We will also be reflecting on the key decisions from last year and look forward to the case law trends likely to emerge this year.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Pregnancy discrimination: "Egregious acts" permitted 25% Acas uplift to awards

  In Slade and another v Biggs and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the tribunal had been entitled to apply the 25% Acas uplift to the awards for aggravated damages and injury to feelings, given its findings of serious pregnancy discrimination.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disciplinary hearing: Accompaniment by family member was reasonable adjustment

  In Cox v Lancashire County Council, an employment tribunal held that allowing an autistic employee's wife to accompany him at a disciplinary hearing was a reasonable adjustment under disability discrimination legislation.

• Date:

  8 December 2021

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  The 10 most important employment law cases in 2021

  Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in 2021. We count down the 10 most important judgments of the year that every employer should know about.