Legal news: Employment update

Jo Broadbent rounds up developments affecting employers and their advisers The government confirmed that it would support two private members’ bills. The first introduces a new right to neonatal care leave and pay; the other seeks to ensure that tips are distributed fairly to workers. Industrial action changes in force Two relatively small changes to …
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Whistleblowing: Disclosures, detriments, dismissals and a directive – whistleblowing decisions and developments in 2021

Annabel Mackay summarises recent case law on whistleblowing and considers the potential impact of new EU legislation in this area An unusual feature of the whistleblowing regime is that the threshold for the claimant to succeed in showing causation is lower in a detriment claim than in a dismissal claim. In the past 12 months …
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Legal news: Employment update

Jo Broadbent rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers In Dodson, the EAT confirmed that women are less likely to be able to accommodate certain working patterns than men because of childcare responsibilities. Supreme Court confirms no change to burden of proof in discrimination cases The Supreme Court decision in Royal Mail Group …
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