Legal Issues – Independent Schools and Pensions – Significant challenges ahead
Once seen as an essential part of most employee contracts, defined benefit pension schemes have become increasingly expensive over the years. There are lots of factors involved in this, but a key part is that we’re all living longer, meaning… Legal issues – Current consultations and proposed changes to employment law
Long-time readers will have seen our updates on the Taylor Review, which made a number of recommendations to the government on how to improve UK employment law to suit the modern working environment, and on the resulting Good Work Plan… Legal Issues – Religion and the workplace
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Religion and belief is one of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010, and as such taking formal action (such as dismissal) against an employee because of their religion or belief could give rise to claims, such as… Legal issues – Working time and record-keeping
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The UK’s myriad rules on working time, rest breaks, rest periods and holidays are found in the UK’s Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR). The WTR were developed from the Working Time Directive (WTD), which operates at a European level.… Legal Issues – Family leave and discrimination
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We issued an update in 2017 looking at whether enhancing maternity pay but not pay for other forms of family leave was discriminatory. At that time, in Ali v Capita Customer Management Limited, Mr Ali successfully claimed direct discrimination… Legal Issues – Gender pay gap reporting
Last year was the first year in which companies with 250 or more employees had to publish their gender pay gap information. The figures outline differences in pay and bonus between men and women, as well as the numbers of… Legal Issues – Potential changes to redundancy law
The government has announced that it is looking at introducing new legislation on redundancy to increase the protections for new parents.
The law on redundancy as it stands now contains myriad protections for employees, including limited grounds on which a… Legal Issues – What to expect in 2019
Now that the fun of the Christmas and New Year period is over, and we’re in the middle of gloomy January, many of us will be looking forward to longer days and warmer weather.
We too at Navigator are looking… Legal Issues – The Government’s Good Work Plan
In July 2017 Matthew Taylor and his team published their review of working practices in the UK. The review made a number of recommendations on employment law issues under four broad themes, namely employment status, rights for atypical workers, holiday… Legal Issues – When is a belief protected in discrimination law?
Some of you may remember our update from August in relation to what might fall under the protection of anti-discrimination in relation to religion and belief. That update was largely centred on Mr McEleny, whose belief in Scottish independence was…