GDPR guidance on personal data breaches ......................................................................................................55 Employment News ............................................................................................ 56 Employment Law & Guidance ..............................................................................................................................56 Acas guidance on calculating holiday pay ..........................................................................................................56 New Acas guidance on gig economy working and employment status rights.....................................................56 Welsh Assembly Bill to reverse elements of Trade Union Act for Wales ............................................................57 Employing illegal workers – it isn’t worth the risk… ............................................................................................58 Home Office publish update guidance - an employer’s guide to Right to Work checks ......................................58 Employment rate at highest since records began...............................................................................................59 Insolvency Service Holiday Pay to include contractual-based commission ........................................................59 The Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017 ....................................................................................................................60 Whistleblowing changes implemented in Northern Ireland .................................................................................60 Hidden maternity discrimination in confidentiality clauses ..................................................................................61 Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill .......................................................................................................61 Employment tribunal fee refund scheme launched.............................................................................................62 Applications open to all for employment tribunal fees refund scheme ................................................................62 Pregnancy and maternity discrimination at work ................................................................................................62 The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2018 ...................................................................................63 Morrisons faces £100m equal pay claim from shop floor workers ......................................................................64 The impact of the Beast from the East on leave and pay ...................................................................................64 Sainsbury's workers face ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ pay offer ..........................................................................65 South Korea passes bill to reduce 68-hour working week ..................................................................................65 Employment Tribunals..........................................................................................................................................67 Consultation published on caste discrimination ..................................................................................................67 Some Other Substantial Reason (SOSR) Dismissal ..........................................................................................67 £25,000 for early termination of apprenticeship contract ....................................................................................67 BHS workers share £1m payout over failed redundancy process ......................................................................68 Working Time - sleeping at work ........................................................................................................................69 Unlawful contracts ..............................................................................................................................................69 Definition of Worker ............................................................................................................................................69 Holiday Pay and ‘three-month gap’ rule..............................................................................................................70 British Airways loses High Court battle over discretionary increase ...................................................................71 Calculating Strike Pay ........................................................................................................................................71 BA to appeal High Court ruling on discretionary increases.................................................................................72 Altering contractual job duties without prior consultation and agreement ...........................................................72 Territorial Jurisdiction .........................................................................................................................................73 Ambulance workers’ holiday pay to include overtime for ‘shift overruns’ ............................................................74 Shared parental pay - father wins sex discrimination case .................................................................................74 Employees not under duty to disclose intention to compete ...............................................................................75 Holiday pay implications for 'gig economy' workers ............................................................................................76 Charity to pay care workers minimum wage for sleep-ins ..................................................................................76 Glasgow City Council to pay up following equal pay victory ...............................................................................77 TUPE and Garden Leave ...................................................................................................................................77 HMRC wins in Rangers Football Club tax avoidance case.................................................................................78 TUPE and pre-packs arrangements ...................................................................................................................78 Tribunal under duty to consider stigma future loss claim....................................................................................79 Whistleblowing: Public Interest Requirement......................................................................................................79 Court victory for same-sex survivor pension rights .............................................................................................80 Calculating pension benefits for part-time workers .............................................................................................81 Employee imprisoned for breaching court order .................................................................................................82 UNISON legal victory sees employment tribunal fees scrapped.........................................................................82 Unlawful employment tribunal fees.....................................................................................................................82 Employers must now include voluntary overtime in holiday pay calculations .....................................................83 Employment tribunal rules against Addison Lee in employment status case .....................................................84 Employers will be obliged to consult with unions around workplace issues........................................................84 Plumbers to take self-employment case ruling to Supreme Court ......................................................................85 Suspension is not a neutral act...........................................................................................................................85 Asda equal pay claims: Comparability................................................................................................................85 Monitoring workers' emails for private use..........................................................................................................86 Part Time Workers' Discrimination......................................................................................................................87 Employment tribunal rules in favour of drivers in worker-status case .................................................................87 Failure to conduct risk assessment for breastfeeding mother.............................................................................87 TUPE transfer: new security contractor takes over equipment but not staff .......................................................88 Deliveroo riders take first step in legal challenge for employment rights ............................................................88 Working 12 consecutive days without a weekly rest break is permissible ..........................................................89 Worker Status: Uber Drivers are 'Workers' .........................................................................................................89
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