01-06-2021
Employers considering redundancies as COVID restrictions ease should beware inadvertently discriminating either directly or indirectly against disabled employees when choosing who to let go and take care when considering whether they need to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ for disabled employees.
01-04-2020
Employers offering enhanced contractual maternity pay to mothers are not guilty of direct or indirect discrimination, and are not breaching equal pay rules, if they fail to give enhanced pay to fathers taking shared parental leave as well, the Supreme Court has confirmed.
01-07-2019
Employers offering enhanced contractual maternity pay to mothers are not guilty of direct or indirect discrimination or of breaching equal pay rules, if they fail to give enhanced pay to fathers taking shared parental leave as well, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
CMS Pensions Team
Pensions Law Handbook
Bloomsbury Professional
2021
A chapter on discrimination within the context of UK pensions law, covering the Equality Act 2010, sex discrimination/equal pay, age discrimination, same-sex partners, gender reassignment, temporary workers, disability discrimination, religion or belief discrimination, race discrimination, insurance and relevant case law.
Accountants Legal Service
Bloomsbury Professional
2020
This chapter covers pay, including equal pay, withholding or reducing pay, itemised pay statements, cashless pay and national minimum wage.
Accountants Legal Service
Bloomsbury Professional
2020
A chapter on discrimination, covering the Equality Act 2010, harassment, victimisation, responsibility for employees and agents, the Codes of Practice, time limits and procedures, discrimination claims, compensation and other remedies and claims beyond the reach of discrimination legislation.
eBooks
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Narrative reporting
Chapter 8 looks at narrative reporting, giving an overview, the requirements of the UK Corporate Governance Code and detailing the strategic report, the directors report, the corporate governance statement, the statement on risk management and internal control, remuneration reporting and gender pay gap reporting.
Discrimination
These ten sections of the chapter on employment cover discrimination - the Equality Act 2010 replaced all previous discrimination legislation. Discrimination on the basis of: age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion and belief; sex; and sexual orientation is outlawed. In addition discrimination against people with criminal records, part-time workers, fixed-term workers and agency workers is also covered.
Job evaluation: a guide to achieving equal pay
A good practice guide to job evaluation.
Acas guidance
Advice, guidance and practical resources on a wide variety of recruitment topics for both employers and employees, produced by the
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, Acas. Acas is the employment relations service for England, Scotland and Wales offering practical, independent and impartial advice to employers, employees and their representatives.
Acas template equality documents for employers: a gender pay reporting letter and sample equality policy.
August 2017
Acas guidance offering an insight into how sex discrimination can occur in the workplace and how it can be dealt with.
Online articles
The Library provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers' terms of use.
5 lessons we've learned from gender pay reporting...
Discussion of the issues around implementation of gender pay reporting in the UK as of May 2018 and the 5 things you should do next. Also cited are the percentage of employers which complied and failed to report their data, the differences between gender pay and equal pay.
"Is he being paid more than me?"
The article discusses gender pay gaps in organizations of Great Britain. Topics include views of Elysia McCaffrey, head at the Government Equalities Office, on payroll arrangements, the introduction of gender pay gap reporting having positive effect on the quality of public discourse and forcing business to act on the more persistent issues such as pay inequality, and incorporation of gender pay gap analysis into pay review by Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CPID).
What now? Not all harassment makes the headlines - but there are hard and fast rules every business facing allegations should follow.
The article discusses sexual harassment allegations made within the U.S. entertainment industry and offers tips for businesses facing such allegations. Topics include the tendency for companies to ignore transgressions or trivialise them despite a clear definition of sexual harassment presented under Great Britain's Sex Discrimination Act, the Equality Act's protection of individuals making claims and organizations against hypersensitive individuals, and the importance of corporate culture that welcomes concerns and complaints.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Information on the legislation governing equal pay from the CIPD. Induces factsheets, Q&As and case law. Registration required to access content.
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Guidance from the EHRC including what qualifies as a belief, different types of sex discrimination and circumstances when being treated differently due to sex is lawful
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
CIPD factsheets, Q&As and case law on sexual discrimination. Registration required to access content.
Institute for Public Policy Research
May 2018
Report analyses ONS economy-wide data and organisation level data arising from the gender reporting requirements introduced in 2018 that covers 10,000 employers. Narrative reporting is also reviewed and actions that employers could take to promote gender equality within their organisations are suggested.
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