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UK: Disability - up front commitment to extend phased return not a reasonable adjustment
Where an employer has offered a fixed period of reduced hours as a reasonable adjustment for a disabled employee on their return from long-term sickness …
UK: Religious discrimination - 'non-core' beliefs protected
Employers should not treat requests to adjust working conditions in order to accommodate an employee's belief any less seriously simply because the …
EU Gender Directive: EU Parliament votes in favour of the draft Directive
Yesterday, 20 November 2013, the EU Parliament voted in favour of the legislative report on the EU Gender Directive which will oblige companies to adopt …
UK: Board diversity – Cranfield board diversity progress report published
Cranfield School of Management has published its latest report on Women on Boards. As well as setting out the most recent figures for the percentage of …
UK: Pregnancy discrimination - EHRC launch research project
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is launching a comprehensive research project into the extent, causes and effects of pregnancy and …
UK: Unfair dismissal compensation - judicial review application
A judicial review application has been made challenging the introduction of the 12 months' pay cap on the unfair dismissal compensatory award in …
UK: Enhanced redundancy pay - risk of age discrimination claims
Employers should carefully consider whether enhanced redundancy schemes paying more to older workers can be justified. The ECJ has ruled that a Danish …
UK: Reasonable adjustments for disability - employers may need to pay for private counselling to assist return to work
Employers may need to consider paying for an employee with work-related stress and depression to have private psychiatric counselling and cognitive …
Africa: Regulations governing women in the workforce
Investment opportunities are increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa and multinational employers need to be aware of some very different employment law …
EU Gender Directive: 40% non-executive directors on EU largest listed companies by 2020 - EU Committees vote in favour of draft Directive
The EU Committees on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Legal Affairs voted today in favour of a joint report on the draft EU directive which will …
UK: New legislation in force 1st October 2013
The third party harassment provisions in the Equality Act 2010 have been repealed. Under those provisions an employer could be vicariously liable for …
EU: Gender Balance on Company Boards - draft EU Directive "does not go far enough" argues the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
As previously reported, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a gender Directive which plans to introduce a 40% “minimum objective” for the …
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