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  • Date:
    19 October 2020
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Looking beyond Brexit - is your organisation ready?

    In this webinar, Louise Haycock, partner at Fragomen, will guide you through the new Brexit rules and give practical advice on the steps your organisation needs to take to protect your workforce.

  • Date:
    29 September 2020
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Post-Brexit recruitment realities

    The new post-Brexit immigration system comes into force in January 2021, but employers need to start making plans now to ensure they are able to access the talent they need. Nick Martindale reports.

  • Date:
    30 June 2020
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    The new immigration system for the UK

    The Brexit transition period is due to end on 31 December 2020, with no indication that this will be extended in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. European nationals who arrive in the UK from 1 January 2021 will require immigration permission to work here.

  • Date:
    6 May 2020
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    ECJ considers if homophobic comments made in radio interview breached EU law

    In NH v Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI, the European Court of Justice held that a senior lawyer's comments on a radio programme that he would not wish to recruit homosexual people fell within the scope of the Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) even though his firm was not recruiting, or planning to recruit, at the time.

  • Date:
    23 August 2019
    Type:
    Case studies

    How Travelodge is attracting out-of-work parents through a targeted recruitment campaign

    Travelodge talks to XpertHR about its successful strategy of attracting out-of-work parents to help it address a shortfall in EU workers following Brexit.

  • Date:
    30 November 2016
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Discrimination: Job applicant not genuinely seeking employment not protected

    In Kratzer v R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG [2016] IRLR 888 ECJ, the ECJ held that a job applicant who is not genuinely seeking employment but whose sole purpose is to seek compensation for alleged discrimination with regard to his or her application is not protected by EU discrimination law.

  • Date:
    25 August 2016
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Discrimination law does not protect job applicants seeking compensation only

    In this German case, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a person who applies for a job with the sole purpose of making an application for compensation for discrimination is not covered by the Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) or the Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment Directive (2006/54/EC) and may be considered as having committed an abuse of rights under EU law.

  • Date:
    28 May 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Pregnancy dismissal: Fertilised but non-implanted ova did not constitute pregnancy

    In Mayr v Bäckerei und Konditorei Gerhard Flockner OHG [2008] IRLR 387, the ECJ held that the protection afforded by the Pregnant Workers Directive against dismissal on grounds of pregnancy does not extend to a woman undergoing IVF treatment who was dismissed when in-vitro-fertilised ova existed but had not yet been transferred to her uterus. However, if she was dismissed essentially because she had undergone this advanced stage of IVF treatment, her dismissal would amount to direct sex discrimination contrary to the Equal Treatment Directive.

  • Date:
    1 May 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    ECJ ruling on sexual orientation law

    A recent decision of the European Court of Justice may result in the UK having to amend its sexual orientation laws in relation to pensions. Although the main points at issue in the case are already covered by legislation in the UK, the application of the Barber temporal restriction may have an impact on public sector schemes.

  • Date:
    17 October 2007
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Félix Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios SA

    In Félix Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios SA Case C-411/05, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given its judgment that the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) does not preclude a Spanish law permitting clauses in collective agreements that allow employees to be compulsorily retired when they reach a specified age.

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