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• Upcoming webinar: Conducting termination discussions successfully

  Type:

  Audio and video

  Register for our next webinar and learn how to navigate “protected conversations” and the “without prejudice rule” to agree mutually acceptable exit terms with an employee.

• Benchmark Christmas celebration budgets with the latest XpertHR data

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  Editor's choice

  How much are employers planning to spend on Christmas celebrations in 2018? New XpertHR data enables you to benchmark the planned spend per head on workplace Christmas celebrations for 2018 at your organisation against those in the same sector.

• Gender pay gap reporting survey 2018: Responses to the first round of reports

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  Survey analysis

  More than 10,000 employers published gender pay gap data for the first time in 2018. XpertHR asked how employees and others responded and what employers plan to do next.

• How to devise and implement a policy on compassionate leave

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  How to

  Improved with further practical guidance for employers on their options when drafting a compassionate leave policy.

• Annual leave: Worker's right to payment for untaken holiday survives death

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  Law reports

  In Stadt Wuppertal v Bauer; Volker Willmeroth als Inhaber der TWI Technische Wartung und Instandsetzung Volker Willmeroth eK v Broßonn, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that a German law that prevents a payment in lieu of a deceased worker's accrued but untaken annual leave from forming part of his or her estate is incompatible with EU law.

• Annual leave: German law cannot automatically preclude termination payment for unused holiday

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  Law reports

  In Kreuziger v Land Berlin and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV v Shimizu, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that a worker who does not apply for leave does not automatically lose the right to a payment in lieu on termination of employment.

• Ethnicity pay gap reporting: Next steps for employers

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  Legal guidance

  The Government is consulting on taking forward its proposals to require large employers to publish ethnicity pay data. We investigate what shape the legislation might take; the challenges that an ethnicity pay gap reporting obligation would pose; what reporting employers are already carrying out; and the potential implementation timetable.

• Webinar: Practical strategies for supporting mental health at work

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  Audio and video

  Our expert speakers draw on real-life cases to demonstrate the successes and difficulties of putting in place pragmatic support for mental health.

• Podcast: Pay award forecasts for 2019

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  Audio and video

  We discuss what organisations are planning on the pay front in 2019, including the likely level of pay awards and the factors that are putting pressure on organisations to make higher or lower increases.

• Whistleblowing: Co-workers liable for dismissal-related detriment

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  Law reports

  In Timis and another v Osipov and another, the Court of Appeal held that, under s.47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996, an employee may bring a whistleblowing claim for dismissal-related detriment against a fellow worker.

• Gender pay gap report

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the latest pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2018.

• "Fat ginger pikey" jibe in stressful sales environment was not harassment

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  Law reports

  In Evans v Xactly Corporation Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld an employment tribunal's ruling that calling a salesperson a "fat ginger pikey" in a working environment with a culture of "jibing and teasing" was not harassment under the Equality Act 2010.

• ASHE data | Summary

  Type:

  Indicators

  Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2018.

• How to review your organisation's pay rates against the national minimum wage

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  How to

  Updated to include the new rates of the national minimum wage announced in the Budget 2018, effective from April 2019.

• Vicarious liability: Employer liable for data breaches by employee with "grudge"

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  Law reports

  In WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various claimants, the Court of Appeal held that the employer is vicariously liable for the criminal actions of an employee who disclosed the personal data of his fellow employees online.