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  • 05 May 2021
  • Employment

Fire and rehire – is it legal?

Following a Commons debate on 27 April 2021, the Government are considering their response to an ACAS report on the use of a ‘fire and rehire’ approach by employers.
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  • 05 May 2021
  • Employment

Flexi-job apprenticeships consultation for employers

The Government is consulting on how its proposed flexi-job apprenticeship schemes could be run, with input invited until 1 June 2021.
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  • 03 May 2021
  • Employment

How to avoid race discrimination in the workplace

Race is one of nine ‘protected characteristics’ under the EqA. The other protected characteristics are age, disability, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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  • 29 April 2021
  • Employment

COVID-19 committee recommends plan for hybrid working

The House of Lords COVID-19 committee has acknowledged that hybrid working is here to stay. In the report Beyond Digital: Planning for a Hybrid World the COVID-19 committee acknowledged that hybrid working was always going to come at some point, but the pandemic has accelerated it.

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  • 28 April 2021
  • Employment

Employee holidays abroad during COVID

With the summer months fast approaching and with the fatigue of more than a year of lockdowns weighing on us, many are hoping the second half of this year will provide ample opportunity to enjoy holidays abroad again.

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  • 21 April 2021
  • Employment

Football clubs – reputation and employee relations

Within 48 hours of its announcement, all six of the English clubs involved in the proposed breakaway European Super League have withdrawn from the project as result of outspoken opposition pressure from their own supporters the public including their domestic target audience of TV subscribers and the UK Government. As only three clubs remain, it is clear that the project will not go ahead.

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  • 15 April 2021
  • Employment

Statutory adoption pay not comparable to shared parental pay?

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) have confirmed that an employer did not discriminate against a male employee by paying enhanced adoption pay but not enhanced shared parental pay. 
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  • 05 April 2021
  • Employment

IR35 off-payroll working rules

Changes have taken place in April 2022 as businesses become responsible for deciding the employment status of the contractors they engage through an agency or the contractor’s own limited company, known as a Personal Service Company or PSC.These changes - known as the Off-Payroll Working Rules and sometimes called IR35 - will affect all medium to large private sector companies with a UK connection from 6 April 2021.
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  • 01 April 2021
  • Employment

Sleep-in workers not entitled to national minimum wage when sleeping

In the recent case of Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake & others, the Supreme Court had to decide how sleep in workers’ working time should be calculated for the National Minimum Wage (NMW).
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