Below are links to some of our recent blog posts on employment law developments covering discrimination, unfair dismissal, financial services cases and other topics. Please do get in touch with your usual HSF contact if you would like to discuss the impact of any of these developments for your business.
Discrimination
- Government confirms no mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting (at this stage)
- Fear of catching Covid-19 on returning to workplace is not a protected belief
- Government seeks employer views on disability workforce reporting
- Tribunal rules that requiring office-based working, to the disadvantage of employees who care for disabled dependents, can be unlawful indirect discrimination
Unfair dismissal
- Dismissal for refusal to formally progress multiple grievances could be fair
- Employment Appeal Tribunal suggests employers contemplating dismissal may need to seek employee’s response to lesser disciplinary sanction
- Dismissal for questioning a colleague’s competence in connection with a protected disclosure was not automatically unfair
- Failure to offer appeal against redundancy/SOSR dismissals is not inevitably unfair
Financial services
- Tribunal orders re-engagement overseas of unfairly dismissed trader in light of negative regulatory reference
- Tribunal orders bank to carry out and publish equal pay audit within 6 months, notwithstanding existing equal pay review process
- Should non-financial misconduct lead to prohibition? Upper Tribunal provides helpful guidance
Statutory holiday, flexible work requests and collective bargaining
- Employers who wrongly deny worker status face historic claims for annual leave taken without pay
- Specific agreement required to extend deadline for decision on flexible work request
- Unionised employers can make direct offer of new terms to workers provided the collective bargaining process has been exhausted
Employment Espresso Pods
- Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting – A Race for Data
- Don’t you know that you’re toxic? How to spot a toxic culture in the workplace
For further information, please contact:
Jeremy Walden, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
jeremy.walden@hsf.com
