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Equalities Committee launches inquiry into enforcement of discrimination laws
...discrimination is suspected, issuing unlawful act notices where it finds discrimination, drawing up action plans to avoid repetition or continuation of discrimination and seeking court injunctions to ...
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Law Commission Consults on Employment Law Hearing Structures
...discrimination claims (for example discrimination in education or the provision of goods and services). Currently those claims have to be brought in the county court. At the moment ...
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Government consults on regulating use of confidentiality provisions in employment contracts and settlement agreements
...discrimination. The consultation follows the Women and Equalities Committee’s report calling for better regulation of confidentiality clauses in the context of working relationships.The g...
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Injury to feelings awards: Increases from 6 April 2018
...discrimination claims have increased for claims presented on or after 6 April 2019. The new bands are as follows: lower band of £900 to £8,800 (for less serious cases)middle band of £8,800 to ...
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Cap on public sector exit payments back on the agenda
...discrimination and whistleblowing if an employment tribunal would be likely to uphold the claim and award compensation. The Minister (or person acting on delegated authority) must be satisfied of this...
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Call for law requiring employers to investigate discrimination and harassment complaints
...discrimination and prevent legitimate discussion of discrimination and harassment allegations. In a wide-ranging report, it also says employers should be required to report annually on di...
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Government consults on tackling workplace harassment
...discrimination and harassment claims to six months. It is also looking at whether it should extend discrimination laws to protect interns and volunteers. The consultation closes on 2 October 2019.&nbs...
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Redundancy protection to be extended for pregnant women and new parents
...discrimination increases with the length of absence from work. Do the changes effect paternity leave? The Government has decided not to extend redundancy protection to employees returning from...
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Best practice guidance on confidentiality agreements issued by Equality and Human Rights Commission
...discrimination. However, they may be appropriate in some cases. Examples include where the worker or victim of discrimination would like to keep the act of discrimination confidential or when needed t...
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Queen’s speech: workplace issues
...discrimination. This is likely to mean an extension of a woman’s current right to be offered any suitable alternative vacancy before being made redundant. Currently the right only applies where the wo...
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Why employers need to provide regular and effective equality and anti-harassment training
...discrimination. A related benefit is that the training might give the employer a defence to a claim by arguing that it took all reasonable steps to prevent the discrimination from occurring. This defe...
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Peter Daly - New Hire for Doyle Clayton
...discrimination claims. A number of his recent cases are amongst the most high-profile litigation of their type and have helped to shape the law in whistleblowing and discrimination. Pet...
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Why is menopause a workplace issue?
...discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 from the first day of their employment. Potential claims therefore include unfair dismissal, direct or indirect discrimination (on grounds of sex, age and/or...
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Menopause discrimination: inquiry launched
...discrimination at work. The inquiry will examine the extent of discrimination faced by menopausal people in the workplace, and investigate how Government policy and workplace pr...
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Keeping Children Safe in Education - Top tips for dealing with ‘low-level’ concerns
Keeping Children Safe in Education - Top tips for dealing with ‘low-level’ concerns Department for Education releases new guidance The latest updates to the statutory guidance introduce a new duty o...
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Peter Daly Selected for The Lawyer Hot 100
...discrimination, and cemented judicial recognition of the reality that women are more often than not primary child-carers, and therefore policies which disadvantage child-carers are indirectly discrimi...
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The power of individuals to create change
...discrimination policies and better leave. Whilst commentators suggest that many of those demands (and the health & safety issues in particular) were driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, we should not ove...
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Are Dentists Workers?
...discrimination. Implications We anticipate that the findings will have significant implications for NHS Dentistry. Ms Sejpal’s relationship with the dental practice is...
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Forstater v CGD Europe & Others: Maya Forstater succeeds in Employment Tribunal
...discrimination on the basis of her gender critical beliefs. Gender critical beliefs – in summary that biological sex is real, immutable, binary and important – have been the subject of a great deal...
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Allison Bailey wins her discrimination case
Allison Bailey wins her discrimination case Garden Court Chambers discriminated against gender critical barrister In one of the most keenly followed Employment Tribunal cases of recent years, D...