Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill
The House of Lords have amended the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill to remove the proposed third party harassment provisions. Objections in the Lords included the cost to businesses, curtailment of free speech and worries about excessive state intervention in business. This revised version of the Bill had its third reading in […]
Right to Switch Off
Labour made a manifesto pledge to ‘bring in the ‘right to switch off’ in their wide-ranging ‘Make Work Pay’ paper. The Times newspaper recently reported that the government is now looking at how such a right will operate in practice. To this end, the Government is considering increases in tribunal compensation where ‘right to switch […]
The new duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
Currently, under the Equality Act 2010, an employer can defend a harassment claim if it can show that it took ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent it from happening in the first place. However, this is set to change from 26th October 2024, and the legal obligation will require a more proactive approach from employers than […]
Code of Practice on fire and re-hire amended
The statutory Code of Practice on fire and re-hire came into force on 18th July 2024. On 30th July, the Government re-issued the Code to include a sentence which had been missed out from the final published version. The relevant sentence It states as follows: “The employer should ensure that the only terms which are changed are […]
New law on allocation of tips and accompanying Code of Practice in force from 1st October 2024
Key features of the Act include: August 2024