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UK: Unfair dismissal - covert surveillance may not render dismissal unfair
The EAT has ruled that an employee has no reasonable expectation of privacy when filmed in a public place during hours when the employee should have been …
UK: Equal pay - comparators at different establishments permitted, even if jobs could not exist at claimant's worksite
The Supreme Court has ruled that employees can bring an equal pay claim based on comparators working at a different location but employed by the same …
UK: Disability discrimination - limit to duty to automatically appoint redundant disabled employee to vacancy
Previous case law has established that, when a disabled employee becomes unable to carry out their current role, the duty to make reasonable …
UK: Redundancy selection - use of historical performance data for employee on leave permitted
Employers making redundancies from a selection pool including employees on maternity leave or other prolonged family leave should ensure that identical …
UK: Victimisation - dismissal for making multiple discrimination grievances unlawful
Where an employee makes repeated allegations of discrimination which the employee believes to be true but which the employer considers unfounded, …
UK: TUPE - recent developments
The Employment Minister, Jo Swinson, has announced that simplified TUPE regulations will be unveiled in September, rather than the beginning of …
UK: Employment law reforms - updates to 2013 timetable
The new protection for pre-termination negotiations introduced by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act will come into force on 29 July 2013. This …
Australia: Failure of employer to act on bullying complaint results in $600,000 damages award
A recent Supreme Court of Victoria decision has awarded almost $600,000 to an employee who developed severe psychological disorders from an …
France: Revisions to the Afep-Medef code – corporate governance code for listed companies ("say on pay")
The Afep and the Medef have revised the corporate governance code for listed companies (the previous version was released in 2010). The revisions …
Australia: Enterprise award modernisation process
Under the Fair Work legislation, enterprise awards will automatically terminate on 31 December 2013, unless an application to …
UK: EAT ruling on multi-site collective redundancies published
Last month saw reports of a significant EAT ruling that the obligation to inform and consult for collective redundancies applies whenever an employer …
Australia: Fair Work Amendment Act 2013 - Summary of Amendments
On 4 April 2013, Herbert Smith Freehills published a summary of the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2013 (Cth) (Bill), which proposed a number of changes to the …
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