We enhance pay for mothers on maternity leave. Do we also have to enhance pay for fathers taking paternity leave or shared parental leave?
The law has always distinguished a woman who has given birth to a child from any other form of parent as a ‘special’ case because only women have been able to give birth. That has enabled employers to treat mothers taking maternity leave more favourably than a father...Tattoos and piercings – are there any legal implications?
I read something recently which talked about how visibly tattooed people and those with body piercings, with the exception of a number of ‘hipster’ employers who may celebrate a certain look as part of their marketing, generally will suffer diminished...When was the last time you risk assessed each stage of your recruitment process to think about how it might exclude those with disabilities or even disincentivise them from applying?
I was shocked this week when my copy of People Management arrived and I saw an article within it talking about how badly companies are flouting the law when it comes to disability and recruitment. In it there was a case study example of a lady who had applied for...Make sure you train staff in relation to fat jokes
In the last 12 months it has become clear that disability discrimination extends to severely obese employees. One of the implications of that is that an employer can become liable for acts of harassment by members of staff towards such an employee. In the last week...Worrying case in respect of mental illness
I would imagine that a case involving an employee suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who stopped taking his medication and sexually assaulted female colleagues would rank high up there on HR’s list of nightmare scenarios. This was a scenario that Aviva faced...
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