Employment weekly highlights—26 July 2018

Published on: 26 July 2018

Published by: LexisPSL

Employment weekly highlights—26 July 2018
In this issue:
Equality
Government decides not to legislate to provide legal ‘caste’ protection
Report underscores failures to reduce workplace sexual harassment
Government strategy to improve travel accessibility for disabled travellers
Employment contract
Successful contractual appeal against disciplinary dismissal revives contract
Practice, procedure and settlement
Amending alleged reason for unfair dismissal does not amount to bringing a new claim

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Employment Judge wrong to adopt a broad-brush approach to application to redact irrelevant material from claimant’s ET1 and witness statements
Demand for Acas’ conciliation service up after scrapping of tribunal fees
Guidance published on EU court preliminary rulings
Health and safety
Working through the heatwave
Vicarious liability
Police Commissioner did not owe duty to officers when responding to proceedings relating to their alleged misconduct
Court of Appeal deals a blow to ‘independent contractor defence’
Tax
Wales Act 2014 (Commencement No 2) Order 2018
OTS suggests PAYE equivalent for online platform workers
Corporate governance
Companies (Miscellaneous Reporting) Regulations 2018
Brexit
Brexit puts women’s rights at risk
Home Office publishes employer toolkit for EU settlement scheme
Cross-border Railway Services (Working Time) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2018
Additional news—daily and weekly news alerts
Dates for your diary
Trackers

Article summary

This week’s edition of Employment highlights includes: (1) the government’s response to its consultation on caste discrimination, (2) the Women and Equalities Committee report on workplace sexual harassment, (3) a Court of Appeal decision on the legal impact of a successful contractual appeal against dismissal, (4) an EAT judgment on the approach to be taken to applications to amend the principal reason why a dismissal is said to have been unfair, (5) an EAT case on the approach to be taken to applications to redact irrelevant matters from pleadings and statements, (6) the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) annual report which shows an increase in demand for its conciliation services following the removal of tribunal fees, (7) a look at health and safety issues arising in the workplace as a result of the recent heatwave by Robert Biddlecombe, senior associate at Squire Patton Boggs, and Nicholas Lakeland, employment partner at Laytons, (8) dates for your diary, and (9) updates to our case, legislation and consultation trackers. Sign in or take a trial to read the full analysis.