Employment

Court of Appeal rules that it is sufficient for an ET1 for a multiple claim to contain the employment conciliation certificate reference relating to just one lead claimant

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd v Clark & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 386

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Judicial mediation to be introduced in cases before Northern Ireland Employment Tribunals

Department for the Economy says, in 'appropriate cases', scheme will offer claimants an opportunity to sit down with their employer and a specially trained Employment Judge with a view to resolving the dispute

Enacting the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill would place an ‘unacceptable restriction’ on a worker’s right to take strike action

Employment law specialists warn that legislation giving Secretary of State largely unfettered power to set service levels during strikes would make Great Britain 'an outlier among comparable countries'

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Seafarers’ Wages Bill receives Royal Assent

New Act makes provision in relation to the remuneration of seafarers who do not qualify for the national minimum wage

Government launches review of whistleblowing framework

Department for Business and Trade says review will gather evidence on the effectiveness of the current regime that will inform policy choices going forward

National living wage and national minimum wage rates from April 2023

New statutory instrument

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Increase of limits applying to certain awards of employment tribunals and other sums payable under employment legislation

New legislation issued in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Neither HM Treasury or HMRC have a good enough understanding of the impacts of the almost £100 billion spent on Covid-19 employment support schemes

Public Accounts Committee report on CJRS and SEISS also highlights that gaps and lags in data contributed to the schemes providing excessive support to some, while excluding others that were in need

Government confirms appointment of first Menopause Employment Champion to ‘encourage employers to develop menopause policies’

However, announcement comes days after Equalities Minister confirmed that there are no plans to explore whether existing protection from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 is effective in relation to menopause

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is a ‘huge step backwards’ for tackling racism at work

TUC, Equality Trust, JCWI and Runnymede Trust warn that, if enacted, Bill will disproportionately affect BME workers who are significantly overrepresented in health and transport sectors

Uprating of minimum agricultural wage rates in Wales for 2023/2024

New statutory instrument revokes and replaces previous Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order

Joint Committee on Human Rights finds that government’s Strikes Bill fails to meet human rights obligations

Committee Chair also warns that draft provisions in the Bill, that include new powers to make it easier to sack striking workers and leave unions at risk of million-pound fines, are unclear and provide inadequate protection against arbitrary use