Keeping you informed.
Next Retail Limited: Employment Tribunal rules on equal pay
The case focused on whether Next could justify the pay disparity between store-based sales consultants (predominantly female) and warehouse operatives (predominantly male). Whilst the 2023 ET Hearing focused on whether the work performed by sale consultants was of equal value to that of the male warehouse operative, the 2024 ET shifted to consider whether Next could provide a justifiable reason for pay disparity between the two roles
Supreme Court’s equal pay comparison decision in the Asda case
With the Asda equal pay case currently being considered by the Employment Tribunal, this is a good point to reflect on the Supreme Court (SC) Judgment of March 2021, which specifically focuses on the equal pay comparator element which was a preliminary issue.
Age Discrimination in the Workplace
Age discrimination affects millions of British employees of all ages every year. In this blog you’ll learn about some of the different ways that age discrimination can occur inside the workplace, and a few of the areas in which age discrimination is legal.
Managing the Menopause in the Workplace
There are many enormous changes that can happen in one lifetime - from marriage to relocation to retirement. But one life change that often goes undiscussed when thinking about employees and employment law is the menopause.
In this blog, we’ll give you a quick overview of the menopause and how it may affect employees, and make suggestions of how to accommodate workers in this particular stage of life.
Blog: Wellbeing and mental health
Employment law blog: why the mental health of your employees is more important than ever before.