Worker status
The worker status bubble has expanded recently and found its way into the public sector. In Braine v The National Gallery, an employment tribunal has held that art educators are workers when they are working on individual assignments.
Age discrimination
ACAS has published new guidance on age discrimination at work. The guidance looks at the key areas in employment where discrimination can happen, including recruitment, performance management and retirement.
Working time records
The Advocate General of the European Union Court of Justice has suggested that employers should keep records of actual hours worked by full time employees in order to comply with the Working Time Directive.
Agency workers
After 12 weeks’ employment, agency workers are entitled to the same basic employment terms (including pay) as if they had been hired directly by the hirer, rather than through an agency (regulation 5(1) Agency Workers Regulations 2010).
Religious discrimination
Employees are protected against discrimination due to their religion or belief by the Equality Act 2010. Direct discrimination is where an employer treats an employee less favourably because of their religion or belief (or their lack of it).
Transfer of Undertaking – TUPE
TUPE has been high on our case work at THSP Risk Management this last couple of months, and has made the Court of Appeal.
Stress causes up to 40% of all work-related illness
The headline in the metro last Friday (29/03/19) read “A nation of pill poppers”. It went on to explain that the use of anti-depressants has almost doubled in the past ten years.
Update on the Personal Protective Equipment (Enforcement) Regulations 2018
Following the implementation of the Personal Protective Equipment (Enforcement) Regulations 2018 which provide an enforcement and penalty regime for (EU) 2016/425, the one-year transitional period for full implementation ends on 21st April 2019.
Statutory Pay Increases from April 2019
The government has published its draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019. From the 1st April 2019, most social security payments, such as maternity, sick and parental payments increase along with the minimum wage.
Non-disclosure agreements
In the year of the #metoo campaign, there have been numerous headlines about the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), often involving high profile people.