- Employment weekly highlights—31 January 2019
- In this issue:
- Status
- Employment tribunal finds professional cyclist is not employee or worker
- Explaining the government’s plans to tackle off-payroll working
- Equality
- Claimant carries initial burden of proof in direct discrimination claim
- Consultation into protecting working parents against redundancy published
- Whistleblowing
- Allegation of breach of tortious duty can form basis of a whistleblowing claim
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- Pay
- National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2019
- Recruitment
- Disclosure of criminal records framework unlawful in respect of multiple convictions rule and warnings and reprimands to young offenders
- Partnerships and LLPs
- Departure lounge clauses—use with caution
- Settlement
- Status of Law Society’s guidance on non-disclosure agreements in employment contexts
- Employment agencies and businesses
- Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2019
- Cross-border, international and jurisdictional issues
- Jurisdiction and the Lugano Convention
- Public sector
- NHS long term plan—exploring proposals to increase recruitment and retain staff
- Corporate governance
- Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association releases Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines 2019
- Brexit
- Brexit Bulletin—government claims a clear mandate on Brexit next steps, but what does it mean?
- Brexit Bulletin—UK preparations in the two months to exit day
- Immigration and ending free movement—no deal Brexit guidance
- Education—no deal Brexit guidance
- Data Protection—no deal Brexit guidance
- Information Commissioner tackles myths regarding flow of personal data after Brexit
- Additional news—daily and weekly news alerts
- Dates for your diary
- Trackers
- Latest Q&As
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Article summary
This week’s edition of Employment highlights includes: (1) analysis of the employment tribunal’s decision that Rebecca Varnish was not an employee or worker of British Cycling or UK Sport, by Emma Foubister, barrister at Matrix Chambers, (2) a Court of Appeal decision on the burden of proof in discrimination claims, (3) a government consultation on increasing legal protection against redundancy for pregnant women and new parents in the workplace, (4) an EAT judgment that a breach of a tortious duty, such as the duty not to defame, amounts to an allegation of a breach of a legal obligation for the purpose of a whistleblowing claim, (5) the draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2019, (6) an explanation of ‘departure lounge clauses’ and an examination of how they work in practice by Peter Garry, consultant solicitor at Keystone Law, (7) a review of the Law Society’s Practice Note on the use on non-disclosure agreements in an employment context by Ellen Temperton, partner at Lewis Silkin LLP, (8) an examination of government proposals to increase recruitment and retain staff in the NHS long-term plan by Joanna Hunt and Naomi Hanrahan-Soar, managing associates at Lewis Silkin, (9) the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines 2019, (10), updates to our case, legislation and consultation trackers, and (11) a new Q&A.
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