Sector focus

New and updated

• Frontline health workers granted visa extension

  Date:

  1 April 2020

  Type:

  News

  Home secretary Priti Patel has announced that frontline NHS workers whose visas are due to expire before 1 October will be granted free automatic extensions to allow them to remain in the country and support the coronavirus effort.

• Met Police asks retired officers to return

  Date:

  30 March 2020

  Type:

  News

  The Metropolitan Police Service is calling on retired officers to return to duty and urging those nearing retirement to stay on.

• Budget 2020: Seven things employers may have missed

  Date:

  12 March 2020

  Type:

  News

  Given the covid-19 coronavirus has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget announcement yesterday was rightly focused on the how the Government would support employers and workers as the UK attempts to contain the spread of the virus.

• Pay awards: Public safety

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Updated to include the details of four new pay awards across the sector.

• Pay awards: Finance

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Updated to include the details of two new pay awards across the sector.

• Pay awards: Local government

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Updated to include the details of two new pay awards across the sector.

• Age discrimination: Dismissed banker told "you're old and set in your ways"

  Date:

  17 February 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Kirk v Citibank NA and others, an employment tribunal held that a senior banker who was dismissed following a redundancy process was subjected to direct age discrimination and unfairly dismissed.

• Black police representation has barely increased in 11 years

  Date:

  29 January 2020

  Type:

  News

  Police forces in England and Wales have succeeded in attracting more women and people from Asian backgrounds but are failing to attract people from other ethnic groups, especially in police officer roles.

• Right to work: Employer wrong to rely on checking service

  Date:

  17 December 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Badara v Pulse Healthcare Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer should not have relied solely on negative Home Office checks when it dismissed the employee for failing to provide right to work documentation.

• Senior Managers and Certification Regimes: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to take into account the extension of the SMR and CR to all FCA-authorised firms on 9 December 2019.