Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts bring you the top five employment law developments from June 2019 that may affect your business.

Here are our five significant employment law developments you should be aware of this month - what they are and how they might impact your business.

1. Disability discrimination: perceived disability, progressive conditions & meaning of day-to-day activities
2. Changing terms and unionised workforces
3. Holiday pay & overtime revisited
4. Right to privacy and use of personal e-mails in decision to dismiss
5. Reinstatement and re-engagement orders do not impose an absolute obligation on the employer to do so

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Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts bring you the latest top five employment law developments that may affect your business.

Here are our five significant employment law developments you should be aware of this month - what they are and how they might impact your business.

1. Employers are not required to match enhanced maternity pay for fathers taking shared parental leave
2. Working time: Employers must have a system for measuring daily working hours of their workers
3. Disability discrimination: knowledge of disability
4. Disability discrimination: Withdrawal of overseas job posting due to health concerns NOT disability discrimination
5. Unfair dismissal and religious proselytizing

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Gowling WLG's experts bring you five significant employment law developments you should be aware of this month - what they are and how they might impact your business

1. Disability discrimination: reasonable adjustments and employer's failure to follow its own stated policy.
2. TUPE: on employer's insolvency arrears of equal pay can be claimed from the NIF with liability for excess passing to transferee.
3. Vicarious liability: employer not liable for injury at work's party.
4. Government resurrects plans for cap on public sector exit payments.
5. Discrimination - injury to feelings award bands uprated.

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Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts bring you the latest top five employment law developments that may affect your business.

Here are our five significant employment law developments you should be aware of this month - what they are and how they might impact your business

1. Court of Appeal guidance on use of suspensions
2. Misconduct subject to police investigation
3. Rest breaks under the Working Time Regulations
4. Discrimination arising from disability
5. The numbers to know - April changes to compensation limits and statutory pay rates

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This podcast covers how the recent TUPE case law has developed over the past year, focusing on 3 TUPE cases which deal with some of the most common scenarios which occur in practice. We consider the impact of the  cases on organisations in terms of dealing with transactions and employees in a TUPE context. 

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Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts bring you the latest top five employment law developments that may affect your business.

1. Direct Discrimination: comparators and 'material difference'
2. TUPE: Dismissal ostensibly for dysfunctional working relationship was TUPE-related
3. Trade union statutory recognition: admissibility assessed at date of CAC decision
4. Whistleblowing: complaint about false rumours potentially a qualifying disclosure
5. Equal pay: Asda claimants overcome corporate structure hurdle

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Approximately 1 in 5 of the working population has a disability according to statistics produced by the Department of Work and Pensions. In this podcast we focus on some of the issues concerning the working population with disability and how employers should respond both in terms of encouraging an inclusive workforce and making reasonable adjustments at work.  We cover the Government's position, guidance for employers, the triggers for making reasonable adjustments and how employers can support employees. 

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What to expect in 2019?  Which employment law changes are coming into force in 2019? Which 2020 legislative changes do employers need to make plans for? Which 2019 court decisions will change the employment law landscape?

Despite Brexit's near monopoly of Parliamentary and legislative draftsmen's time, the Government did find time to publish its 'Good Work Plan' in December. The plans set out are more a tweak of employment laws over the next two years rather than a major reform. Nevertheless, it does offer some real improvements aimed at protecting more vulnerable workers.

In our first podcast of 2019, and accompanying article, we discuss 2019's hot employment law topics that employers need to have on their radar.

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Although Brexit has been and remains top priority for the legislative draftsmen, the tribunals and courts have brought us significant employment and equalities legal developments. For now, we leave the Brexit uncertainty aside and instead reflect on our pick of the 2018 employment cases and developments to remember.

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This month Gowling WLG's employment, labour & equalities experts discuss their pick of November's top five employment law developments that may affect your business:

1. Unfair dismissal & employees entitled to PHI payments
2. Disability discrimination & excluded conditions
3. Holiday leave: use it or lose it?
4. Non-disclosure agreements remain in the spotlight
5. April 2019 increases to statutory pay rates announced

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