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Of course vegans are protected by the Equality Act!
A vegan is claiming discrimination after being sacked from his job at the League Against Cruel Sports. The emphasis of the BBC story is on whether or not Mr Casamitjana’s beliefs will be protected under the Equality Act as a philosophical … Continue reading
Posted in Equality Act, Uncategorized
Tagged discrimination, league against cruel sports, philosophical belief, vegan
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My Pimlico Plumbers Prediction (updated)
UPDATE: so the decision is out and it seems to be mainly Option 1 (see below). Lord Wilson’s decision does, I think, move the law on a bit when it comes to the right to send a substitute. When looking … Continue reading
Posted in Employment status, Taylor Report, Uncategorized
Tagged gig economy, Lady Hale, Pimlico Plumbers, substitution clauses, supreme court
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‘Last Chance Saloon’ for gender pay gap reporting?
With just days to go before the deadline for large employers to submit their gender pay gap information (30 March for the public sector, 4 April for the private and third sectors) the press is full of concern that many … Continue reading
Posted in gender pay gap, Uncategorized
Tagged Equality Act, Equality Act 2006, Equality Commission
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Iceland, equal pay and enforcing the gender pay gap regulations
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
Posted in Equal pay, Equality Act, gender pay gap, Uncategorized
Tagged Equality Commission, iceland
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The Classic Employment Law Songbook
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
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
Posted in Employment status, Uncategorized
Tagged Employment Appeal Tribunal, uber, workers
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How much does it cost to defend an ET claim?
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
Posted in Employment Tribunals, Uncategorized
Tagged costs, defending an ET claim, IEA, legal fees, Mark Littlewood
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What about the dependent contractors?
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
Posted in Employment status, Taylor Report, Uncategorized
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The Taylor Review – the good, the bad and and the cosmetic
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
Banning employees from wearing headscarves
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