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Made in Dagenham – a clarion call for equal pay in the City
Today, 7 June 2018, marks the 50th anniversary of the strike by 187 female sewing machinists at a Ford car factory seeking sex equality, a
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Celebrate Global Day of Parents 2018
1 June 2018 marks Global Day of Parents – a day declared by the UN General Assembly in 2012 which aims to honour parents and
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Mental Health First Aid – #where’syourheadat?
Emma Sell, Practice Manager of BDBF explores how mental health first aid training works and what to expect from it. I first heard about the
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Barclays CEO fined by UK Regulators for Trying to Expose Whistleblower
Barclays CEO Jes Staley has been fined £642,430 by City regulators and had £500,000 of bonus clawed back by the bank after he attempted to
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Key Steps to Overcome Mental Health Stigma at Work
It is clear from recent studies that a change is needed in terms of how employers deal with mental health issues. Research from Mind, the
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Are some job adverts discouraging women from applying?
It is now well known that advertising a vacancy for a “barmaid” or a “handyman” would discriminate against applicants of the opposite sex. When Human
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Taxing News
Employment Law News Employers everywhere, sharpen your pencils and find your calculators. Tax on employment termination payments has changed and you will need to
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Employer discriminated against employee because of perceived disability
An employer was found to have directly discriminated against an employee on the basis of a hearing disability it perceived that employee to have. The
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Injury to feelings awards available in breach of working time cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that compensation for injury to feelings can in principle be awarded in respect of working time detriment claims. This
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Employment Tribunal awards increased from April 2018
The level of certain awards which can be awarded by Employment Tribunals will increase from 6 April 2018. Each April, compensation limits for Employment Tribunal
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How does an employer know whether an employee is disabled?
The Court of Appeal has decided that the test was not whether the employer did all it could to determine whether an employee was disabled
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Stand by for new rules on shift pay
The ECJ has once again shaken up rules on working time in a recent employment case on stand by shifts. Previously, on call or stand
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