Employment weekly highlights—20 June 2024

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This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) key employment and immigration announcements in the Labour and Green Party manifestos, (2) an EAT judgment on an NHS Trust justifying the continuation of a consultant surgeon’s fixed-term contract after four years, (4) an EAT decision on whether a claimant, who was employed by the British Council in the UAE, could bring claims in the employment tribunal in Great Britain, (4) an employment tribunal decision that a bakery failed to make reasonable adjustments for a blind employee, (5) analysis by Adam Richardson, barrister at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, of a High Court judgment about the defence of consent to defamation within workplace procedures, (6) an EAT judgment about the fairness of a redundancy process involving an employee being put in a ‘pool of one’, (7) a Council of the EU proposal for an EU Talent Pool, (8) Scottish regulations making additions to the listed authorities that have specific duties in relation to the public sector equality duty, (9) the...