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Employee undergoing IVF feels sidelined after seeking support from management – Catherine Hayes comments for the Irish Times on the various employment issues to consider and how best to proceed
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13 June 2024Over recent years efforts have been made to make the workplace more family friendly and support for those going through IVF has increased. However, some worry that being too truthful about what they’re going through can have unintended consequences. Catherine Hayes comments on how best to proceed and employment law considerations.
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Views sought on ‘gaps’ in equality legislation in Northern Ireland - Ciara Fulton comments for Irish Legal News
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13 June 2024The Northern Ireland Assembly’s Committee for the Executive Office is undertaking an inquiry into differences in equality legislation between Northern Ireland, other parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, which will run until 6 September 2024.
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Paul Gillen comments on why workplaces must be neurodivergence-aware for the Belfast Telegraph
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05 December 2023While major employers are now actively recruiting people with neurodivergent backgrounds, the number of industrial tribunal cases involving neurodiverse employees has quadrupled in the last four years. Paul Gillen comments for the Belfast Telegraph.
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Menopause in the workplace: Linda Hynes comments for The Irish Examiner
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14 October 2022Employers risk losing experienced female members of staff if they fail to offer support during menopause.
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Protecting staff from social media abuse as important as protecting your brand: Hannah Price and James Storke comment for International Employment Lawyer
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16 July 2021On 11 July 2021, football fans across Europe came together to witness England take on Italy in the final of Euro 2020 at Wembley stadium. An engaging match swayed back and forth between the two sides before eventually going to penalties, where the Italians emerged victorious after three England players missed their spot kicks.
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The test for equal pay comparisons - going back to the source: Carolyn Soakell writes for PLC Magazine
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29 June 2021In what might be the last ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a UK equal pay case, the ECJ has confirmed that female staff working in Tesco stores can rely directly on the EU “single source” test in order to compare themselves to men working in distribution centres (K and others v Tesco Stores Ltd C-624/19).
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Reporting Ethnicity Pay Gaps Recommended for UK Employers: Tom Heys comments for SHRM
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04 June 2021The U.K.'s Commission for Racial and Ethnicity Disparity recently recommended that all employers voluntarily report pay gaps among ethnic groups to identify and rectify disparities.
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Regulators push for greater diversity in financial services: Michael Burd comments for Compliance Monitor
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14 May 2021Diversity and inclusion are regulatory issues, the Financial Conduct Authority has affirmed, and will be “mainstreamed” into all its processes.
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UK: Equal Pay: UK Supreme Court Allows Asda Employees To Make Equal Pay Comparison. Lucy Lewis writes for Mondaq
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09 April 2021The UK Supreme Court has confirmed that Asda's retail staff can compare themselves to higher-paid distribution depot staff for the purposes of an equal pay claim. This article explains.
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Tackling bullying and harassment in a remote working environment: Carolyn Soakell writes for People Management
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18 January 2021Inappropriate behaviour that may be obvious in the office may not be as visible when staff are at home, which can make victims feel nervous about speaking out.
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The impact of furlough on gender pay gap reporting: Tom Heys writes for workingmums
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18 January 2021This year’s gender pay gap figures could be much lower than previous years, but this will be on account of the impact of furlough rather than businesses taking more meaningful action on gender inequality.
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Gender pay gap may be skewed by furloughing: Tom Heys comments for The Times
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04 January 2021Furloughed workers will be excluded from mandatory gender pay gap reporting next year, which could distort pay disparities between men and women.
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Rethinking our definition of bullying and harassment: Lucy Hendley writes for The Law Society Gazette
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23 December 2020The way we look at behaviour and management styles in the workplace has shifted in recent years. Some members of our profession will remember a time where it wasn’t considered an issue to shout at a trainee for their poor research memo or criticise a junior lawyer in public. We all knew the partners we had to keep on the good side of and the ones to avoid wherever possible.
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The gender pay gap: Tom Heys and Rachel Ward comment in a briefing paper for the House of Commons
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20 November 2020This briefing paper provides statistics on the size of the gender pay gap in the UK, looks at some of the reasons why the gender pay gap arises and discusses the duty on large employers to report on the size of the gender pay gap in their workforce.
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Could Black Lives Matter speed up the introduction of ethnicity pay reporting? Rachel Ward and Tom Heys write for People Management
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14 July 2020Rachel Ward and Tom Heys explore whether the renewed pressure to remove societal injustice faced by BAME people could finally mean clarity on this area of legislation.
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Tom Heys, Karen Baxter, Anna Bond: Supporting bisexual and transgender employees in their workplace
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12 February 2019Karen Baxter, Tom Heys and Anna Bond have written an article for HR Review discussing a recent survey by Stonewall that found bi and trans inclusivity was significantly low among employers, prompting the charity’s executive director to call for more to be done to tackle this problem in the workplace.
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Colin Leckey comments for economia: Mind the gender pay gap
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08 May 2018In an article for economia, Colin Leckey comments on gender pay gap reporting and why there are pay disparities, even for people doing similar jobs.
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Tom Heys comments for The Economist: ‘A legal defeat for a pious prison gardener is good news for bosses’
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09 August 2017Tom Heys has commented in an article for The Economist discussing religious rights at work, in light of a recent case in which an individual failed in his religious discrimination claim after being disciplined for causing offence by quoting Bible passages.