The Year Ahead: What to expect in 2018

Matthew Towers and Emily Skinner outline the key developments that employers and their advisers should prepare for in the next 12 months ‘The Conservative manifesto and the Queen’s Speech made a clear commitment to act after the Taylor review to ensure that people working in the gig economy are protected. What form that action will …
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Shared Parental Leave: Dads paid less for bringing up a baby – is direct discrimination the answer?

Anthony Fincham and Val Dougan analyse two recent cases challenging employers’ failure to enhance shared parental pay rates for fathers ‘It may be possible to argue that a failure to pay enhanced rates of pay is both direct and indirect discrimination.’ We have come a long way since maternity leave was first introduced by the …
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