by Andrew Macmillan | Apr 3, 2025 | News
The latest annual update for awards for injury to feelings in discrimination and detriment cases has been published. In respect of claims presented to Employment Tribunals on or after 6 April 2025, the Vento bands (as they are known) are as follows: a lower band...
by Andrew Macmillan | Mar 27, 2025 | News
In July 2024, the Government announced its intention to bring forward the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill, introducing a requirement for large employers (those with 250 or more employees) to report on ethnicity and disability pay gaps. It has now launched a...
by Andrew Macmillan | Mar 21, 2025 | News
The Government has laid the draft Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025 before Parliament, setting out the new statutory rates applying to certain awards of employment tribunals and other amounts payable under employment legislation. Changes include: the...
by Andrew Macmillan | Mar 17, 2025 | News
The Employment Rights Bill contains provisions making employers liable for third party harassment. Here are eleven steps an employer can take to prevent third-party harassment which you should find useful as a guide: Clear Anti-Harassment Policy: Implement and...
by Andrew Macmillan | Mar 10, 2025 | News
The Government has published an updated Amendment Paper collating all proposed amendments to the Employment Rights Bill. The paper incorporates the amendments flowing from the Government’s response to its statutory consultations. It also includes further amendments...
by Andrew Macmillan | Mar 3, 2025 | News
More than one million low-paid workers in the UK are to be entitled to 80% of their weekly salary as sick pay from the first day of illness, under government plans. Currently, to qualify for statutory sick pay, you must have been ill for more than three days in a row...
by Andrew Macmillan | Mar 3, 2025 | News
In a recent case called Korpysa v Impact Recruitment Services, the Claimant was employed by the Respondent and placed with Howdens as a warehouse operative. Howdens said that it no longer needed her. The Claimant rang the Respondent a week later. The Respondent...
by Andrew Macmillan | Feb 25, 2025 | News
There have been two recent updates on the subject of neurodiversity at work: Firstly, ACAS has published new guidance for employers to raise awareness of neurodiversity at work. The advice provides employers with guidance on different types of neurodivergence, how the...
by Andrew Macmillan | Feb 19, 2025 | News
The Government, through their Employment Rights Bill, plans to change the law regarding collective redundancy consultation duties. At present, any employer proposing 20 or more redundancies ‘at one establishment’ within a period of 90 days must go through a process of...
by Andrew Macmillan | Feb 12, 2025 | News
The Court of Appeal has handed down its highly-anticipated judgment in the case of Higgs v Farmor’s School. The case concerned a Christian Claimant who was a secondary school counsellor. She was dismissed for gross misconduct following Facebook posts she had...
