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The final version of the regulations which require private and voluntary sector organisations with 250 or more employees to report on their gender pay gap have been published – the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017. They...

The following compensation limits and minimum awards will apply from 6 April 2017: The maximum compensatory award increases to £80,541 (from £78,962). The limit on a week’s pay increases to £489 (from £479). This is used to...

An employer did not indirectly discriminate (on the grounds of religion or belief) against one of its employees when it refused him permission to take five weeks’ holiday to attend religious festivals with his family. Mr Gareddu is a Roman Catholic...

An employer can rely on a mobility clause in its employees’ contracts where there is a potential redundancy situation – but it must be very careful when it does so, as this decision usefully illustrates. Mr Ewer and Mr Fitton had worked for KB...

It used to be the RPI, currently it’s the CPI but soon it’ll be the CPIH. What are we talking about? The way inflation is measured by the official statistics. RPI – the Retail Prices Index – was for a long while the official measure...