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OpinionDaniel Parker: LGBT employment equality - the journey so far
With a particularly significant Pride Month having taken place this June, marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, one might be forgiven for looking to the past and taking stock, with a critical eye, of decades of change for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in the ...
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ArticleThink tank proposes increases to wages and annual leave to boost UK’s productivity
Image credit: NEFBritish think tank the New Economics Foundation (NEF) has proposed that minimum wages and statutory paid holiday entitlement be increased in order to improve the UK’s productivity.The Time for demand: Boosting productivity with public investment, minimum wages and paid holiday report, published in August 2019, suggested that bolstering ...
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OpinionOliver Topping: How to spot personal data breaches and when to report them
In 2018, new data protection laws brought in a requirement for data controllers, like employers and trustees of pension schemes, to make reports swiftly after certain types of personal data breaches occur.Before rushing to pick up the phone to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or emailing affected employees or pension ...
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ArticleWomen and Equalities Committee puts discrimination responsibility on employers
The Women and Equalities Committee has recommended that the emphasis for raising workplace discrimination issues should lie with employers, public authorities and service providers, rather than individual employees.The Committee published its tenth Enforcing the Equality Act: The law and the role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission report on ...
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ArticleEY, London City Airport and Schroders sign up to new Good Work Standard
Professional services organisation EY, London City Airport and asset wealth firm Schroders are among the employers that have signed the Good Work Standard, a new benchmark that recognises businesses for implementing and maintaining high employment standards, such as paying staff at least the voluntary London living wage.The Good Work Standard ...
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ArticleNearly two million UK employees do not receive their minimum paid leave entitlement
Nearly two million (1.96 million) UK employees do not receive the minimum entitlement of paid annual leave, according to research conducted by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).The analysis, based on the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Labour force survey data for quarter four of 2018, also found that 1.145 million ...
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ArticleBEIS to consult on workplace protections and flexible working, following Good work plan
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has launched a consultation on workplace protections, aiming to tackle the issues identified in its Good work plan report, published in December 2018, including the introduction of a single labour market enforcement body.The consultation, which launched on Tuesday 16 July 2019 ...
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OpinionRuth Christy: Changes to the statement of employment particulars
Some of the finer details of the new rules for written statements of employment particulars have gone under the radar.Under the Good Work Plan, published in December 2018, from 6 April 2020 every new employee and worker will have the right to the current statement of written particulars from day ...
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OpinionLindsey Hunt: Can an employer ban working from home?
In March 2019, city bank BNY Mellon came under fire for announcing it was putting a stop to working from home. Its employees vented that this was a huge step backwards, with issues such as mental health and childcare among the key concerns. The backlash led to the bank retracting ...
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ArticleEuropean court rules that member states must measure employees’ working time
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that European Union (EU) member states must require employers to measure the duration of time worked by each employee, both normal hours and overtime, to ensure staff are not working beyond the legal maximum number of hours, and that ...
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OpinionKaren Holden: Tackling harassment of LGBT persons in the workplace
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is subjected to bullying and harassment in the workplace on a devastating scale. A survey of more than 5,000 LGBT people in the UK, published by Stonewell in April 2018, found that more than a third hid their sexuality for fear of ...
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ArticleMorrisons receives permission to appeal payroll data breach case at Supreme Court
Supermarket retailer Morrisons has been granted permission to appeal a High Court ruling, which found that the organisation was partly liable for a data breach leading to the payroll data of around 10,000 staff being posted online.Andrew Skelton, who was a senior auditor at the organisation’s Bradford headquarters, posted employees’ ...
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ArticleNew Zealand launches consultation to support older staff
The New Zealand government has launched a consultation on its draft strategy to better support older individuals, including encouraging the employment of those aged over 50.The Better later life: 2019 to 2034 consultation opened on 12 April 2019 and will run until 3 June 2019. Following this, the government will ...
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ArticleGovernment announces plans to protect workers' rights post-Brexit
On Wednesday 6 March 2019, the government announced that following the UK's exit from the European Union (EU), it will ensure that the standard of workers' rights will not be reduced, and that new EU laws will be considered for adoption into UK legislation.In a report titled Protecting and enhancing ...
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ArticleGovernment-led taskforce publishes employer guidance on championing flexible working
A government and employer-led taskforce focusing on encouraging flexible working has today (Monday 14 January 2019) published guidance for organisations on how to champion flexibility.The Flexible Working Taskforce, established in March 2018, is a working partnership across various government departments, business groups, trade unions and charities that aims to widen ...
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ArticleBradford-based accounts manager admits workplace pension offences
Bradford-based accounts manager Mansoor Nasir will be sentenced for workplace pension offences after pleading guilty to nine charges of knowingly or recklessly providing The Pensions Regulator (TPR) with information that was false or misleading.The offences, under section 80 of the Pensions Act 2004, involved workers at the Akbar chain of ...
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OpinionHina Belitz: Harassment and bullying - employers are letting themselves down
In a dramatic wake-up call for the legal profession to examine its culture and working practices, the preliminary findings of a recent International Bar Association (IBA) survey, revealed in October 2018, found that bullying and sexual harassment are rife.According to more than 5,000 lawyers in 120 jurisdictions, one-third of male ...
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ArticleGovernment announces workplace reforms to protect rights of modern workforce
The government has unveiled plans for a range of workplace reforms designed to improve the rights of workers on zero-hour contracts, agency employees and those working in the gig economy.Business secretary Greg Clark said: "Today's largest upgrade in workers' rights in over a generation is a key part of building ...
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ArticleNew Zealand Employment Relations Bill set to pass second reading in parliament
The New Zealand government's new Employment Relations Bill is expected to pass its second reading in parliament today.The legislation is expected to create a new relationship and balance between workers' rights and employers' interests. The bill contains multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) provisions that clarify that employers have a responsibility to ...
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ArticleSingapore government extends workers' rights with amendment bill
The Singapore government's Employment (Amendment) Bill 2018 has been passed in parliament after a second reading by Josephine Teo, minister for manpower, on 20 November 2018.Changes to Singapore's Employment Act (EA) and Employment Claims Act (ECA) are due to take effect from 1 April 2019.Core provisions under the acts will ...