Employment Notes
Tag: recruitment
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UK: Disability - employers acting on wrong assumptions about medical conditions risk perceived disability discrimination claims
Employers should take extra care when considering rejecting a job applicant because of a concern that a health condition is likely to deteriorate (even …
UK: Medical assessments - employers should review their arrangements to minimise risk of vicarious liability
A High Court has held in Various claimants v Barclays Bank an employer vicariously liable for the acts (in this case, alleged sexual assaults) of a …
UK: Recruitment - employers may need to consider adjustments to psychometric testing or other processes which could disadvantage disabled candidates
Employers should give careful consideration to requests to adjust recruitment processes where a disabled applicant asserts that the particular method …
UK: Gender pay gap reporting - revised final Acas/GEO Guidance published
A revised, final version of the non-statutory guidance by Acas and the Government Equalities Office was published on 3 April 2017, available here. …
UK: Disability discrimination - cases highlight recruitment risks for employers in relation to references and interviews
Where a prospective employer receives an unsatisfactory reference about an applicant's suitability for a role, in circumstances where they have been …
UK: New legislative proposals and guidance on minimum/living wage, apprenticeships consultation, employee travel expenses, recruitment and induction
The government has announced plans to increase the penalties for failing to pay the national minimum wage and national living wage (being introduced in …
UK: Implementation dates - flexible work and shared parental leave, employer penalties, rehabilitation periods, abolition of statutory sick pay recoupment
According to a BIS Press Office tweet, the proposed extension to the right to request flexible working to all employees with six months' employment …
UK: New resources
The Disclosure & Barring Service has produced a new Guide for Employers following changes to the criminal records regime, available here.
European Commission publishes employment and recruitment sector guide: Corporate responsibility to respect human rights
The European Commission has published guidance for the employment and recruitment sector on meeting the corporate responsibility to respect human rights …
UK: Age discrimination - degree requirement needs to be justified
Employers should only impose requirements for job holders to have a degree if these can be justified. Where an employee was coming up to compulsory …
UK: Recruitment - failure to disclose information may shift burden of proof for discrimination claim
Employers can refuse to provide recruitment information to an unsuccessful job applicant who meets the advertised job criteria, but risk this being used …
UK: Discrimination - voluntary commitment to anonymous CVs
The use of anonymous CVs was mooted by the Liberal Democrats in their election manifesto and proposed as an (ultimately unsuccessful) amendment to the …