Equality, diversity and human rights

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• Is there a limit on the compensation that can be awarded in a discrimination claim?

  Type:

  FAQs

• April 2020: Employment law changes

  Date:

  3 April 2020

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We round up our key content on April employment law changes.

• Gender pay gap report

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the enforcement suspension due to the coronavirus outbreak.

• Gender pay gap reporting enforcement suspended this year

  Date:

  24 March 2020

  Type:

  News

  Enforcement of the gender pay gap reporting requirements has been suspended this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Government Equalities Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have announced.

• Gender pay gap reporting

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the Government's announcement that it has suspended enforcement of the gender pay gap reporting deadlines due to the coronavirus outbreak.

• How to measure and report a gender pay gap

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect that enforcement of gender pay gap reporting is suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.

• April 2020 employment law changes: Eight tasks for HR

  Date:

  19 March 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Each April, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the latest round of amended employment laws and deadlines. As well as dealing with the ongoing impact of coronavirus (Covid-19), important issues for HR in April 2020 include changes to written statements of terms and conditions, the introduction of parental bereavement leave and pay, and changes to the law on calculating holiday pay for workers with irregular hours.

• Is it time for specific anti-bullying legislation?

  Date:

  12 March 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  There are a few avenues available to employees wishing to seek legal redress after being bullied in the workplace, but no specific anti-bullying legislation yet exists. Bina Patel, senior associate in the employment team at law firm Kingsley Napley LLP, explains why such a law would improve access to justice for all.

• Age discrimination: Reaction to birthday comment was "extreme"

  Date:

  11 March 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Munro v Sampson Coward LLP, the employment tribunal held that an employer's act of sending a birthday card to an employee was "an act of kindness" and not an act of discrimination.

• How the Metropolitan Police launched a returner programme for female police officers

  Date:

  10 March 2020

  Type:

  Case studies

  The Metropolitan Police Service talks to XpertHR about its women returner programme, which is encouraging female police officers to return to the force after a career break.