Sector add-ons

New and updated

• Police chiefs commit to developing sexual harassment action plan

  Date:

  16 August 2018

  Type:

  News

  Police chiefs have vowed to address sexual harassment across the force after it emerged a high proportion of police officers and staff had witnessed or experienced some form of inappropriate behaviour.

• The consequences of trade union recognition: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a link to the government website where data submitted by public-sector employers relating to facility time will be published.

• More police officers take on second jobs

  Date:

  8 August 2018

  Type:

  News

  Thousands of police officers have taken on a second job, while more than four in 10 worry about the state of their personal finances most days, a survey has found.

• Financial services regulation: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the FCA's near-final rules on the extension of the SMR and the CR to all FCA-authorised firms.

• Approved Persons, Senior Manager and Certification Regimes: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the FCA's proposal to introduce a new directory, and its near-final rules on the extension of the SMR and CR to all FCA-authorised firms.

• Vicarious liability: No duty of care to staff when defending civil claims

  Date:

  2 August 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In James-Bowen and others v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the Supreme Court held that, when defending a claim of vicarious liability, the Commissioner did not owe a duty to her police officers to take reasonable care to protect them from economic and reputational harm.

• Recruitment and selection: health (England and Wales)

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the NHS streamlining programme.

• Public-sector pay increases due to be announced

  Date:

  24 July 2018

  Type:

  News

  The government is expected to announce wage increases for more than one million public-sector workers this week.

• Police officers

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to the Government's announcement about the police pay award.

• The national minimum wage: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake, concerning the payment of workers on sleep-in shifts.