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• Employment law manual: Holiday and holiday pay section restructured

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  Editor's choice

  We have restructured and revised our Holiday and holiday pay section of the Employment law manual, to provide a more accessible overview for employers and HR professionals.

• Podcast: The dangers of dismissing employees in receipt of permanent health insurance payments

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  Audio and video

  We discuss the implications for employers of the recent EAT decision in Awan v ICTS UK Ltd, which illustrates the risks for employers of dismissing an employee who is in receipt of permanent health insurance payments.

• Reward priorities 2019

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  Survey analysis

  We look at what's top of the list for reward practitioners when allocating their budgets and the activities they will be working on in 2019.

• Dismissal for "cohabitation outside marriage" is not religious discrimination, rules EAT

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  Law reports

  In Gan Menachem Hendon Ltd v De Groen, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a claim of direct religious discrimination cannot be sustained simply on the basis that an employer acted in the way it did because of its own religious beliefs.

• Family-friendly rights in 2019: resource round-up

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  Editor's choice

  There are a number of developments around family-friendly working for HR professionals to track in 2019. These include the annual increases in statutory family-friendly pay in April, case law developments in May on enhancing shared parental pay, and the publication of draft regulations on parental bereavement leave in late 2019.

• Pay trends February 2019: Pay awards rebound in the new year

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  Survey analysis

  The first full analysis of pay settlements coming into effect in 2019 sees pay awards recover from the lull over the final quarter of 2018.

• Trauma and stress: Supporting workers' families

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  Legal guidance

  We explore the potential impact of workers' exposure to traumatic events and other stressful environments on their families and look at some of the measures that employers can take to support those families.

• Take part in our annual sickness absence survey

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  This is your chance to take part in our research on the level of absence in UK organisations and benchmark your organisation's sickness absence figures against others.

• New model policies on sabbaticals and career breaks

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  Editor's choice

  XpertHR's Policies and documents tool has been improved with new versions of our example policies on sabbaticals and career breaks. They are accompanied by model contract clauses and letters.

• Webinar: Retain your talent by supporting older workers

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  Audio and video

  Patrick Thomson, senior programme manager at the Centre for Ageing Better, and Alistair McQueen, head of savings and retirement at Aviva plc, explore what steps employers can take to encourage the retention of older workers.

• Take part in our occupational sick pay survey

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  XpertHR is investigating occupational sick pay schemes and would like to request your assistance with our research.

• Podcast: Wellbeing in the workplace

  Type:

  Audio and video

  A round-up of XpertHR's latest research on employee wellbeing in the workplace, including the reasons employers introduce initiatives, programmes that have the most impact on employee wellbeing and challenges to introducing measures in this area.

• Equal pay: Asda shop workers can compare themselves with warehouse staff

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  Law reports

  In Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley and others, the Court of Appeal held that workers in Asda supermarkets are entitled to compare their pay with the pay of depot workers because common terms of employment apply.

• Bonus payments for professional staff: 2019 survey

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  We examine XpertHR Salary survey data to reveal which employees are receiving a bonus, and the value of these payments.

• How to prepare for Brexit

  Type:

  How to

  Improved to reflect the most current guidance for employers, including the announcement on 28 January 2019 on transitional arrangements for EEA nationals arriving in the UK after Brexit if there is no deal.