by Anna Denton | Aug 3, 2022 | Holiday calculations, Part year workers
Given we are in peak holiday season, are you happy you are paying people correctly when they take annual leave? The Supreme Court, i.e. the highest Court in our land has just ruled on the case of a teacher whose employment contract meant that she only worked for a...
by Anna Denton | Jul 28, 2022 | Discrimination, gender-critical beliefs
Our latest video is available to view on the Refreshing Law YouTube channel – please click here to watch Anna discussing in detail the recent Employment Tribunal case involving Maya Forstater which centred around gender-critical beliefs and whether she was...
by Anna Denton | Jul 14, 2022 | extension of who can sign, fit note
You may be aware that the categories of people who are able to sign a Fit Note for the purposes of Statutory Sick Pay and other Social Security claims has been broadened with effect from 1 July 2022, so that pharmacists, physiotherapists, registered nurses and...
by Anna Denton | Jul 1, 2022 | Covid-19, Disability
The first Employment Tribunal case to determine that an employee with long COVID was disabled within the meaning of Section 6 of the Equality Act 2010 has taken place. The employee was a caretaker and he tested positive for COVID-19 in November 2020. Initially, he was...
by Anna Denton | Jun 22, 2022 | extension of who can sign, fit note
You will all be familiar with GPs providing employees with certification that they are insufficiently well to attend work on day 8 of their absence, enabling the employer to then process, for example, statutory sick pay. Some new regulations, snappily titled “The...