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Iceland, equal pay and enforcing the gender pay gap regulations

Posted on January 5, 2018 by

So the internet informs me that Iceland has become the first country in the world to make it illegal to pay men more than women. Iceland has not, of course, passed a law saying that it is illegal for an … Continue reading →

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The Classic Employment Law Songbook

Posted on December 15, 2017 by

Over the past year I’ve been recording a series of podcasts looking at classic employment law cases and seeing what relevance they have today. I try to put each into its historical and legal perspective and one part of that … Continue reading →

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How Uber could win in the Employment Appeal Tribunal

Posted on September 28, 2017 by

I spent yesterday sitting in the public gallery of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (if you can call five rows of seats the back of a big room a ‘gallery’) listening to Dinah Rose QC argue that the Employment Tribunal was … Continue reading →

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How much does it cost to defend an ET claim?

Posted on August 31, 2017 by

Mark Littlewood is the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs and yesterday he wrote an article in the Times attacking the HR profession for creating a ‘risk-averse, unimaginative and insipid working environment’. I’ll leave it to others to defend … Continue reading →

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What about the dependent contractors?

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

There is much to mull over in the Taylor ‘Good Work’ Review. It proposes some significant changes to employment law that deserve serious consideration. I set out a whole list of them here. But a lot of attention is being … Continue reading →

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The Taylor Review – the good, the bad and and the cosmetic

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

It’s easy to pick holes in any substantial piece of work – which is great news for people like me. There is, therefore, plenty in the Taylor Review ‘Good Work’ Report (as it now seems to be called) that I … Continue reading →

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Banning employees from wearing headscarves

Posted on March 14, 2017 by

Let’s get one thing clear at the outset. The European Court of Justice has not said that it is OK to ban Muslim employees from wearing headscarves. It really hasn’t. But the decision in Achbita v G4S Secure Solutions NV … Continue reading →

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Pimlico Plumbers and the ‘self employed’ worker

Posted on February 13, 2017 by

Employment status is clearly going to be this year’s hottest employment law issue. Just last week the Government published its Employment Status Review. It is dated December 2015 so it has been sitting on someone’s desk for over a year. … Continue reading →

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The Range of Reasonable Responses Podcast

Posted on January 30, 2017 by

So I thought I’d give podcasting a try. Since talking about employment law is essentially what I do it seems to make sense to do  things where I talk rather than write – and I thought it would be a good … Continue reading →

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Why Uber lost in the Employment Tribunal

Posted on October 29, 2016 by

  Uber drivers are not employees and don’t let anyone tell you different. On the other hand,  in Aslam & others v Uber BV and others the Tribunal did hold that they were ‘workers’. Being a worker is different from being an employee. … Continue reading →

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