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Articles, News and Features

Where Maternity Pay is enhanced and Shared Parental Pay isn’t – what are the risks of discrimination?

Click here for a short article from Emplaw Online considering the latest cases on whether paying ShPP at statutory rates and Maternity Pay at enhanced rates, amounts to direct or indirect discrimination and what this means for employers.

It also links to a blog from Rachel Cransnow QC giving more insight into the most recent case of Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police. Rachel is a barrister at Cloisters, a set which provides expert content for Emplaw Online in topics including TUPE, Unfair Dismissal and ET and EAT procedure

Avoid the pension traps in employee settlement agreements

The Combined Human Resources Solutions team at Gowling WLG seek to address some of the more frequently asked questions that arise  in relation to pensions and settlement agreements and a give a series of top tips

Gowling WLG  provides expert content on Pensions for Emplaw Online.

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Emplaw Monthly - End of April 2018

Click here for the April 2018 edition of Emplaw Monthly which includes some significant legal changes proposed in the EHRC report on ending sexual harassment at work, Acas guidance on agency workers, the 'worker' cases being brought by the IWGB, a GDPR update and the latest on the Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill, as well as links to our latest articles including The Data Protection Bill and GDPR - what employers need to know and Does offering enhanced maternity pay discriminate against men?

For Emplaw Online subscribers, there are also professional summaries of the latest key cases and links to full reports