Sector add-ons

New and updated

• Further reform to public-sector exit payments confirmed

  Date:

  28 September 2016

  Type:

  News

  The Government has confirmed it will proceed with additional limits to exit payments across the public sector, following on from plans to cap exit pay and to require repayment if exiting workers rejoin.

• Redundancy rights: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the Government's response to its consultation on reforms to public-sector exit payments.

• Workplace pensions: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the Government's response to its consultation on reforms to public-sector exit payments.

• Police staff, special constables and volunteers

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  A look at the bargaining structures and pay and conditions of police staff.

• Discipline and dismissal: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on PRA and FCA requirements for reporting any disciplinary action taken due to a breach of the conduct rules.

• Consultation on reforming the law on misconduct in public office

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Law Commission consults on reforming the offence of misconduct in public office.

• Equal pay: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Additional information on the law on equal pay for local authority employers, including the Green Book job evaluation scheme and local equal pay audits. To be read in conjunction with the general information on the law on equal pay.

• Consultation on compulsory gender pay reporting for large public-sector employers

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on the introduction of mandatory gender pay gap reporting for large public-sector employers.

• Immigration Act 2016: English-language requirement for customer-facing workers in the public sector

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Customer-facing workers in the public sector must speak fluent English.

• £69,484 costs order after NHS trust was sent covert recording of meeting with lawyers

  Date:

  17 June 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  In this unusual case, an employment tribunal struck out four claimants' cases and ordered them to pay £17,371 each in costs after the respondent NHS trust's chief executive and lawyers were sent a covert recording of the trust receiving legal advice.