In anticipation of the current Equality Bill coming into force, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (“EHRC”) has been working on producing associated statutory Codes of Practice together with non-statutory guidance. […]
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The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (the “Act”), the main provisions of which come into force for businesses with 250 or more employees in April 2010, will give certain qualifying employees the right to request time off from work to train or study. […]
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Following consultations in 2009, the regulations implementing the EU Temporary Agency Workers Directive, the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (the “Regulations”), have been laid before Parliament. […]
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Since the introduction of legislation outlawing age discrimination in 2006 employers have generally been advised that “last in first out” or other service-related criteria for redundancy selection are best avoided. However certain employers had binding redundancy selection processes, often negotiated with trade unions and often including length of service as one of a matrix of […]
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Increase to statutory redundancy payment and basic award for unfair dismissal […]
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Last October the UK government pledged to remove the compulsory retirement age for all junior civil servants. The Cabinet Secretary has now promised to do the same for senior civil servants, making the civil service “retirement free”. From April 2010 all civil servants who wish to continue working after 65 will be able to do […]
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Employees who work at least partly in the UK are entitled to rely on UK legislation to bring race and age discrimination claims. […]
The government plans to create a one-time extra bank holiday on 5 June 2012 to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. […]
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An EAT case* heard in March underlines the importance to employers of ensuring effectively that employee communication during the redundancy process is not overlooked. In a redundancy situation, an employee who unreasonably refuses an offer of suitable alternative employment made before termination or within four weeks of it has no entitlement to a redundancy payment. […]
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The Equality Bill 2009 is currently being debated in Parliament, with simultaneous public consultation on specific provisions including the proposed extension of age discrimination laws to the provision of services. The Bill is designed to replace and simplify all existing anti-discrimination legislation in relation to the 9 “protected characteristics” of gender, marital/civil partnership status, sexuality, […]
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