Lexis®PSL Employment weekly highlights—30 March 2017

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This week’s edition of Employment highlights includes: (1) a round-up of the key employment changes taking effect at the end of March and the beginning of April 2017, (2) the employment tribunal’s decision in a further ‘gig economy’ cycle courier case, (3) analysis of the two European Court of Justice decisions on the wearing of Islamic headscarves at work by Sarah Crowther, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers, (4) an EAT judgment on the approach to be taken when considering an employee’s refusal to accept alternative employment in a redundancy situation, (5) an EAT judgment on the extent to which an employment tribunal has jurisdiction to construe contractual terms in an unlawful deduction from wages claim, (6) analysis of the impact of the High Court’s liability and costs decisions in Marathon v Seddon, which involved former employees copying and retaining their employer’s confidential information, by Stuart Ritchie QC of Fountain Court Chambers, (7) a look at the Scottish Parliament’s power to determine income tax rates for Scottish...