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- Date:
- 8 December 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in 2021. We count down the 10 most important judgments of the year that every employer should know about.
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- Date:
- 3 December 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
As well as continuing to deal with workplace issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there will be many other important employment law developments for HR to grapple with in 2022. What does HR need to do to meet its obligations and prepare for the coming year?
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- Date:
- 1 December 2021
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Our panel of equal pay experts give you the knowledge and practical strategies needed to make pay equity a reality within your organisation.
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- Date:
- 21 October 2021
- Type:
- Survey analysis
While many businesses now report on their gender pay gap, checking for equality based on other employee characteristics is less common. We report on the progress being made to check for, and address, pay gaps across a number of different areas.
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- Date:
- 3 August 2021
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Bayfield and another v Wunderman Thompson (UK) Ltd and others, an employment tribunal upheld the sex discrimination and unfair dismissal claims of two male directors who were dismissed after the advertising agency vowed to "obliterate" its reputation as a "Knightsbridge boys club".
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- Date:
- 29 June 2021
- Type:
- Case studies
Plymouth Citybus speaks to XpertHR about how it successfully closed its gender pay gap through a combination of pay rises for its lowest-paid, predominantly female, job families and a restructuring of its senior management grades.
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- Date:
- 9 March 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated to reflect that enforcement action for the 2020/21 gender pay gap reporting year began on 5 October 2021.
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- Date:
- 14 May 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
With penalties for failing to publish gender pay gap reports for 2019/20 suspended due to the pandemic, and a lack of clarity about reporting dates for 2020/21, Jo Faragher examines the data and fears that equality may fall off the agenda for some companies.
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- Type:
- How to
Practical guidance on using positive action when taking steps to close the gender pay gap, including the difference between positive action and positive discrimination, measures that could amount to positive action and how to develop an action plan.
