Weekly issue 83

NEWS IN BRIEF

Acas, the government’s employment relations service, has launched a new guide to help businesses decide whether to carry out job evaluation as a way of reducing their chances of facing an equal pay claim.

ANON

Section 1(1) of the 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA) defines personal data as data relating to a living individual from which they can be identified, along with any other information held by the data controller.

CLOSE ASSOCIATES

The European Equal Treatment Directive (ETD) states that workers have a right not to be discriminated against because of their disability (among other things).