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Employment weekly highlights—27 April 2023

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Published on: 27 April 2023

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This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) analysis by Catherine Foster of Crown Office Chambers of a Supreme Court decision on vicarious liability, (2) analysis of an EAT judgment which found that a union official was not also an employee of the union for unfair dismissal purposes, (3) a letter by the Minister for Women & Equalities confirming the effect of the Retained EU Law Bill on equality and employment rights, (4) analysis by Imogen Brown of Cloisters of an EAT judgment holding that a domestic provision exempting ‘family workers’ from receiving the national minimum wage amounted to sex discrimination under directly effective EU legal rights, (5) publication of an independent review of the disclosure and barring regime by the Disclosure and Barring Service and Home Office, (6) the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment and Saving Provision) Regulations 2023, (7) the draft Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2023 (8) consideration by Eilidh Wood of Burges Salmon of the White...

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