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- Date:
- 22 June 2018
- Type:
- Audio and video
We discuss the recent decision of Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police and another, in which the EAT considered the question of whether or not employers are required to enhance statutory shared parental pay where maternity pay is enhanced.
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- Date:
- 22 June 2018
- Type:
- News
The Home Office has revealed how EU nationals can apply for 'settled status', allowing them to continue to live and work in the UK after Brexit.
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- Date:
- 22 June 2018
- Type:
- News
Changes to self-employment tax rules have "seriously damaged" the NHS and the public sector, according to research by the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) and the CIPD.
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- Date:
- 22 June 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
The law is being challenged by the gig economy business model to define and classify the terms "self employed" and "worker". How far have the courts got in achieving this amid a welter of recent cases, asks Richard Isham, employment partner at Wedlake Bell LLP?
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- Date:
- 22 June 2018
- Type:
- News
A former Sainsbury's employee was unfairly dismissed after an investigation into whether he had committed an act of gross misconduct was not approached with an open mind, an employment tribunal has found.
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- Date:
- 22 June 2018
- Type:
- Editor's choice
Is there a maximum temperature beyond which employees are not expected to work? Should employers relax their dress codes when temperatures are high? Can employees request annual leave at short notice? XpertHR has a range of resources to help employers manage employment issues that may arise during hot weather.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to include information on Roddis v Sheffield Hallam University, concerning the comparator for a claim under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, by a lecturer on a zero-hours contract.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to reflect that, from 6 July 2018, doctors and nurses are removed from the cap on tier 2 visas.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to reflect that, from 6 July 2018, doctors and nurses are removed from the cap on tier 2 visas.
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- Date:
- 21 June 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Roddis v Sheffield Hallam University, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a lecturer employed under a zero hours contract was employed under the same type of contract as a permanent full-time lecturer for the purposes of his claim of less favourable treatment under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1551).
