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Employment weekly highlights—21 November 2019

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Published on: 21 November 2019

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This week's edition of Employment highlights includes: (1) a new guide to gender-neutral drafting published by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and the Government Legal Department, (2) an EAT judgment on whether an employee is able to bring a detriment claim when they have been dismissed but then subsequently reinstated, (3) a decision from the European Court of Human Rights on the need for tribunals and courts to balance an employee’s right to freedom of expression and their employer’s right to protect business interests when a dismissal relates to statements made by the employee, (4) an employment tribunal judgment on the application of state immunity to employees in certain roles working in US Air Force bases in the UK, (5) a research note on gender diversity in UK financial services published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), (6) new guidance on special category data published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), (7) details of our new precedent ‘Written statements of particulars of employment (worker)’, (8) dates...

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