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- Date:
- 6 January 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In 2025, HR professionals face the unique challenge of dealing with business-as-usual employment law changes, such as increases in statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay, while also beginning their preparations in earnest for the looming Employment Rights Bill. We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year
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- Type:
- International
This table tracks implementation of the EU equal pay and pay transparency Directive as member states adopt national legislation to meet its requirements.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated to add menstrual problems and menstrual disorders to the list of steps employers will need to report on in their equality action plan under the Employment Rights Bill.
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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 Bill, 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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- Type:
- Letters and forms
Updated to include the latest pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2024.
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- Type:
- Economic data
Updated to include the latest headline gender pay gap data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2024. The next ONS release date is November 2025.
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- Date:
- 24 October 2024
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
In this webinar, Brightmine legal editors Stephen Simpson and Zeba Sayed explain what the changes are going to be, what employers can do now to begin preparing and the potential timelines for implementation.