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  • 08 July 2021
  • Employment

Tesco workers in equal pay case receive boost from European Court

A few months on from the landmark Supreme Court decision in the Asda equal pay claim, workers at Tesco have received a favorable judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in their own equal pay case.

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  • 06 July 2021
  • Employment

Developing junior talent in a hybrid work environment

Over the course of the last couple of months, more organisations have decided that there will be no return to the pre-covid, place-based working environment. Some of these have declared for full remote working, but the majority appear to be considering a hybrid work environment, combining remote and place-based work in a number of different ways.
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  • 05 July 2021
  • Employment

Fire and rehire– what is it?

Fire and rehire involves terminating an employee’s existing employment contract and offering to rehire them on new terms, usually as a last resort, where an employer cannot make the proposed changes using existing powers in the employee’s contract and the employee has not given their agreement to the changes. 
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  • 30 June 2021
  • Employment

Hybrid-working and disabled workers

Many employers are currently grappling with how to implement hybrid-working. How does the duty to make reasonable adjustments fit into this new landscape?

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  • 24 June 2021
  • Employment

Employment law liability of RPOs – The Global Recruiter

Clarkslegal Employment Solicitor Sebastian Reyes publishes in The Global Recruiter Magazine on the employment law liability of recruitment outsource processing (RPO).
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  • 16 June 2021
  • Employment

Employee resistance against back to office working

The past year has seen a significant increase in the amount of homeworking taking place. Before the pandemic, around 5% of those in employment worked from home, whereas during the pandemic this number increased to around 43% of workers.  Nevertheless, employers who are starting to signal a push back to office working, or even to hybrid ways of working, are experiencing a lot of resistance from their employees.
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  • 15 June 2021
  • Employment

BrewDog – preventing a toxic workplace culture

Scottish brewer and pub-chain BrewDog has received a scathing open letter from former employees alleging there was a toxic work culture at the company, where staff were fearful of speaking out about concerns. The open letter from former staff members complained of a culture which gave weight to sexist and misogynistic brewers, of having genuine safety concerns and being pressured into working beyond their capacity, of fearing their mistakes could get them fired and of those in positions of power feeling enabled to act in a toxic manner.It also reported in 2020 that 1 in 5 employees quit...
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  • 11 June 2021
  • Employment

Caution of asserting offensive beliefs in the workplace

Workers philosophical beliefs are protected but can amount to discrimination or harassment in the workplace for asserting beliefs that are considered offensive.

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  • 10 June 2021
  • Employment

Employee resistance against back to office working

The past year has seen a significant increase in the amount of homeworking taking place. Before the pandemic, around 5% of those in employment worked from home, whereas during the pandemic this number increased to around 43% of workers. Last week for example, Apple issued a notice to their employees saying that they must return to their desks for at least 3 days a week come September.
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