Employment

Select Committee calls for introduction of paid bereavement leave for those who miscarry during pregnancy

Amendment to be tabled to the Employment Rights Bill to extend entitlement to statutory parental bereavement leave and pay to employees who experience pre-24-week pregnancy losses

Allowing people the right to work when they’ve been waiting more than six months for an asylum decision ‘just makes sense’

Charities respond to the chair of the Migration Advisory Committee having said that the current situation 'is a real problem'

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Senior President of Tribunals issues new Practice Statement on authorising legal officers to carry out functions of a judicial nature in the Employment Tribunal

New Statement specifies the orders that may be made or matters that may be determined by a legal officer including those in relation to extending or shortening specified time limits, postponements, objections, and confirmation of a stay or dismissal of certain claims

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Low Pay Commission calls for government to better ensure employers’ compliance with national minimum wage as the number of workers underpaid increases to more than 370,000

Commission says that opportunity afforded by the proposed creation of a single enforcement body to protect a range of workers' rights should be taken to deliver 'substantial change' to the way the NMW is enforced

Government tables amendments to the Employment Rights Bill to pave the way for a mandatory seafarers charter

TUC welcomes 'really important step forward', saying that seafarers have been exposed to hyper-exploitation and a lack of enforceable rights for too long

Court of Appeal considers the ‘just and equitable’ test for extending the time limit in which to bring a discrimination claim

Jones v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2024] EWCA Civ 1568

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Court of Appeal considers whether Employment Tribunal gave adequate reasons for not extending time limits following disclosure of additional information through Data Subject Access Requests

HSBC Bank PLC v Chevalier-Firescu [2024] EWCA Civ 1550

Unison welcomes amendment to Employment Rights Bill that will extend time limit for bringing tribunal claims from three to six months

Amendment introduced by Business Minister during Committee Stage in the House of Commons

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Women and Equalities Committee calls for evidence to explore options for reform of paternity and shared parental leave

New inquiry will look at the equality impacts of the existing shared leave scheme and seek to positively influence the government’s recently announced review of the parental leave system

Tribunal Procedure Committee issues new Rules governing practice and procedure in the Employment Tribunal

New Procedure Rules remake in substance the rules of procedure currently in force with some restructuring, clarification and two new Rules

Adding potential ‘fire and rehire’ scenarios to the list of claims that can attract a 25 per cent uplift of ET awards for non-compliance with the Dismissal and Re-engagement Code

New statutory instrument

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Tribunal Procedure Committee says that it intends that the new Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules will be in place in January 2025

Response to consultation confirms that the rules are largely being re-made in their existing form on the basis that they have worked well, and that rewriting them would be time-consuming and create significant disruption