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Is an employer's decision to pay enhanced maternity pay to a female employee but not enhanced shared parental pay to a male employee direct discrimination?
Speaking at an event organised by the Resolution Foundation think-tank and the Confederation of British Industry, Matthew Taylor, the chair of the government's Independent Review of Employment Practices...
GPs in Oxfordshire have been incentivised to reduce the amount of medicines being prescribed to the elderly in care homes, according to Pulse magazine.
The Competition and Markets Authority has decided to take action against MSD, the big pharma company, for alleged abuse of dominant position in the market, contrary to Chapter II of the Competition Act.
When there is uncertainty over meaning within a contract, the Supreme Court in the 2015 case of Arnold v Britton established that the court ascertains the parties' intentions by reference to what a reasonable person having all the background knowledge...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a record fine of £400,000 to Keurboom Communications Ltd for making 99.5 million nuisance calls over an 18 month period. The fine is the largest yet to be issued by the ICO for nuisance calls.
If this is the case and employers do not provide facility to take paid annual leave as a result, they may be liable to pay for all accrued leave on termination.
Some of our clients have contacted us over employee concerns, particularly following press reports of individuals receiving (albeit in error), Home Office letters inviting them to leave.
The NHS has revised its decision to put all contractors working through an intermediary, such as a personal service company (PSC), onto the payroll following the recent changes to IR35 in the public sector.
In just under 12 months' time, on 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. The GDPR will make massive changes to UK data protection laws. How will your recruitment business be affected?