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EU Pay Transparency Directive in Poland: What Does Pay Equality Mean for Employers and Employees?

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The EU directive on pay transparency raises many concerns, primarily because its implementation may complicate Polish laws, which so far have not regulated the issue of pay equality in the same way that gender pay has long...more

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UK Retail Workers Win Landmark Equal Pay Case

More than 3,500 workers have won a legal fight for equal pay against major UK retailer Next Retail Ltd. Following a six-year legal battle, the Employment Tribunal ruled that Next had failed to demonstrate that the lower basic...more

BCLP

UK HR Two-Minute Monthly: June 2024

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Our June update includes a new gender critical philosophical belief case exploring some new areas (such as the nature of the workplace), a case on redaction of disclosure documents and whether the redacted material was...more

A&O Shearman

Summary of 2024 Amendments to the Equality Act 2010

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We are kicking off 2024 with an examination, over a series of blog posts, of some important developments in equality and discrimination law, including legislative changes, updated EHRC guidance on employer duties to take...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Face-off on Use of Biometric Technology in the UK

In one of the world’s first test cases regarding the legality of the use of automated facial recognition and biometric technology, on 11 August 2020 the English Court of Appeal handed down judgment in R (Bridges) v CC South...more

Hogan Lovells

Employment News - June 2017 #2

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Keep it for later – European Court's Advocate General issues Opinion that the right to paid leave can be carried over if employer has not offered it - According to the preliminary Opinion of the European Court in The Sash...more

Hogan Lovells

Employment News - April 2017

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Plus ça change… - the employment law implications of the Great Repeal Bill - The government published its white paper "Legislating for the UK's withdrawal from the EU" last week. The employment law consequences of Brexit...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Employment Law Briefing

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Brexit — Keep Calm and Carry On - The Brexit referendum elicited strong feelings amongst “Leavers” and “Remainers”, and will likely continue to do so. In the UK it is generally not as common for co-workers to discuss...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

A Month in UK Employment Law - August 2016

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News & Legislation Update - The UK votes to leave the EU - We could not write a roundup of news stories from the UK without referencing the UK's vote to leave the EU. The so-called "Brexit" has created...more

Morgan Lewis

UK Supreme Court Confirms Scientology Is a Religion

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With implications for employers, Court’s decision reinforces that non-mainstream religions also fall within the scope of the Equality Act. On December 11, in R (on the application of Hodkin and another) v Registrar...more

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice

Repeal of Third Party Harassment - Are Employers Safe from Claims?

As part of its UK Employment Law Review in 2012, the UK Government announced that it intended to remove the third-party harassment liability provision from section 40(2) of the Equality Act 2010. This provision was repealed...more

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