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27 Mar 2025
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The latest employment rates and limits
New rates for many statutory payments and compensation limits will apply from April 2025.
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18 Mar 2025
1 min
Employment Rights Bill completes all House of Commons stages
The Employment Rights Bill has now emerged from the House of Commons and received its first reading in the House of Lords. Following extensive amendments, the current version of the Bill (at over 300 pages) is nearly twice as long as the original version published last year.
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05 Mar 2025
1 min
Major changes to Employment Rights Bill to be made at report stage
The Government has now put together over 200 pages of amendments that will be considered at the Bill’s report stage on 11 and 12 of March. Many of these arise from responses to five separate consultations on employment law reforms, which were published on 4 March.
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27 Feb 2025
4 mins
Group disadvantage doesn’t always follow from childcare disparity
A recent EAT ruling has reminded tribunals that they can’t necessarily infer that a requirement to work outside normal office hours will disadvantage women.
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20 Feb 2025
2 mins
Recent ruling underlines wide reach of Blacklisting Regulations
The latest ruling in the long-running dispute between Ryanair and its pilots demonstrates that the scope of the Blacklisting Regulations is wider than many might have assumed.
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13 Feb 2025
5 mins
Dismissal for expression of protected beliefs was “unquestionably disproportionate”
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the dismissal of a Christian employee for sharing gender-critical posts in a private Facebook group was direct discrimination because of her beliefs.
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28 Jan 2025
1 min
Employment Rights Bill clears latest hurdle in House of Commons
With the completion of its House of Commons committee stage on 16 January, the Employment Rights Bill 2024 is one step closer to becoming law. You can find out more information about its key measures in this briefing. The revised text of the Bill is now available here
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23 Jan 2025
2 mins
Government on track to implement neonatal leave and pay in April
The Government has recently confirmed that new measures on neonatal care leave and pay will be brought into force from 6 April 2025. As a first step, it has published two sets of regulations which define the extent of these new rights, which will need to be approved by Parliament. More regulations tidying up relatively minor details are on the way.
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07 Jan 2025
2 mins
Jeopardy for breach of fire and re-hire code set to increase
As from 20 January, tribunals will be able to uplift protective awards by up to 25% where there has been a breach of the statutory code of practice on dismissal and re-engagement.
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18 Dec 2024
1 min
Review of the year 2024
To mark the ending of the year, we have published a new page on the Mills & Reeve website, drawing together our top employment-related content from 2024.
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27 Nov 2024
3 mins
Employer doesn’t need to be perfect to keep protected conversations out of tribunal
The latest ruling from the Employment Appeal Tribunal about protected conversations adopts a realistic view of the standards expected of employers.
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21 Nov 2024
3 mins
How to prevent sexual harassment: Checklist and action plan
Since 26 October 2024, employers have been under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent the sexual harassment of their workers.
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21 Nov 2024
4 mins
How to correct a mistake in a collective agreement
Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling earlier this month, we now know that an employer can bring proceedings to rectify a mistake in a collective agreement.
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06 Nov 2024
3 mins
Court of Appeal re-visits guidance on managing small scale redundancies
The Court of Appeal has restored an employment tribunal ruling that failure to consult on the selection criteria before a redundancy dismissal did not make the dismissal unfair, since this defect was cured on appeal. A decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal which had overturned the tribunal’s ruling has been reversed.
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23 Oct 2024
2 mins
Employment Rights Bill: Second reading, consultation and impact assessments
The Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons on 21 October. The second reading was accompanied by a flurry of related documents. As a result, we now know more about the Government’s plans.
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10 Oct 2024
3 mins
Employment Rights Bill receives first reading
The Employment Rights Bill was finally presented to Parliament on 10 October, fulfilling Labour’s pre-election promise to publish it within 100 days of a change of government. It will receive its second reading on 21 October. The Government has also published Explanatory Notes.
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01 Oct 2024
2 mins
Guidance on new duty to prevent workplace sexual harassment
On 26 October 2024 the law on sexual harassment is changing. Employers will be under a new legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their workers in the course of employment. This will require employers to take positive and proactive steps.
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18 Sep 2024
4 mins
Re-assessing the ingredients which determine employment status
Football referees might seem far removed from the normal employment context, but this ruling it is more about general principles than specifics. It is in effect a vote of confidence in long standing test which the courts have traditionally used to determine employment status, but with a modern twist.
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