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    • Weekly Issue 597
      • Treading the boards
      • Constructing deductions
      • Parental status
    • Weekly Issue 598
      • Working on mental health
      • Iced Message
      • Meeting Failure
    • Weekly Issue 599
      • Reporting sexual harassment
      • Company Hearing
      • Public health transfer
    • Weekly Issue 600
      • Disability pay gap
      • Critical Assault
      • Detrimental compensation
    • Weekly Issue 601
      • Racial harassment inquiry
      • Context for harassment
      • Liability for motive
    • Weekly Issue 602
      • Good work plan
      • Witness statements
      • Less favourable half
    • Weekly Issue 603
      • Pay of top bosses
      • Taking leave
      • Working drivers
    • Weekly Issue 604
      • Work more flexibly
      • Tendency to steal
      • Disability plan
    • Weekly Issue 605
      • Calling for evidence
      • It could well happen
      • No relationship
    • Weekly Issue 606
      • Motherly protection
      • Reasonably foreseeable
      • Individual or inter-related?
    • Weekly Issue 607
      • Family friendly working
      • Collective unit
      • Equally unfavourable
    • Weekly Issue 608
      • Zero-hours, zero sum game
      • Reality “on the ground”
      • In need of protection
    • Weekly Issue 609
      • Gender pay gap reporting
      • Monthly statement
      • Associated companies
    • Weekly Issue 610
      • Holiday pay in a fix
      • Factual setting
      • Unbroken relationship
    • Weekly Issue 611
      • Confidential clauses
      • Employee Substitute
      • False rumours
    • Weekly Issue 612
      • Know your rights
      • Commonality of terms
      • Operational needs
    • Weekly Issue 613
      • Parental leave policies
      • Evidential burden
      • Reasonable dismissal
    • Weekly Issue 614
      • Employees should have a say on pay
      • Legitimating interests
      • Nursery ethos
    • Weekly Issue 615
      • Increase the NMW
      • Actual emails
      • Statutory dismissal
    • Weekly Issue 616
      • Payslips for all
      • Agency pay
      • Reality of risk
    • Weekly Issue 617
      • Protect whistleblowers
      • Personal transfer
      • Trouble brewing
    • Weekly Issue 618
      • Negotiating with employers
      • Valid warning
      • Redundant email
    • Weekly Issue 619
      • Failure to pay NMW
      • Reasonable and proper cause
      • Mistaken belief
    • Weekly Issue 620
      • Working flexibly
      • Seriously damaging
      • Hypothetical comparator
    • Weekly Issue 621
      • Increase in stress at work
      • Untainted by race
      • Fact of suspension
    • Weekly Issue 622
      • Mental health wait
      • Balancing act
      • School discrimination
    • Weekly Issue 623
      • Obesity at work
      • Return to work
      • No investigation
    • Weekly Issue 624
      • Trade union membership rises
      • Realisation of a breach
      • Open justice
    • Weekly issue 625
      • Discrimination cover-up
      • Work and rest
      • Dedicated adjustment
    • Weekly Issue 626
      • Low Pay Endemic
      • Variation on a bonus
      • Late Compliance
    • Weekly Issue 627
      • Outlaw sexual harassment
      • Effective time limit
      • Available for work
    • Weekly Issue 628
      • Roadmap to gender equality
      • Equal pay debt
      • Significant influence
    • Weekly Issue 629
      • Modern slavery consultation
      • Working time records
      • Patient forms
    • Weekly Issue 630
      • Labour market enforcment body
      • Men and maternity
      • Adverse consequences
    • Weekly Issue 631
      • Rise in demand for ACAS
      • Apt for incorporation
      • Links in the chain
    • Weekly Issue 632
      • Equality Act enforcement
      • Normal remuneration
      • Constructive knowledge
    • Weekly Issue 633
      • Insecurity of work
      • One-off inducement
      • Effect of harassment
    • Weekly Issue 634
      • More pay and increased holiday
      • Progressive disability
      • Series of deductions
    • Weekly Issue 635
      • Implausible data
      • No breach of rights
      • Genuine misunderstanding
    • Weekly Issue 636
      • Discrimination against young women
      • Self-interest or public interest?
      • Absence of means
    • Weekly Issue 637
      • New collective rights needed
      • Religious Manners
      • Removal Clause
    • Weekly Issue 638
      • Tackling class discrimination
      • Stereotyping assumptions
      • Not in the course of employment
    • Weekly Issue 639
      • Enforcing workers’ rights
      • In denial
      • Secret recording
    • Weekly Issue 640
      • Inflexible Workplaces
      • Minimum wage transfer
      • Agency Hours of Work
    • Weekly Issue 641
      • Mental ill-health at work
      • Immigration breach
      • Holiday Pay Calculator
    • Weekly Issue 642
      • Supply Chain Abuse
      • Reason for Dismissal
      • One-Off Acts
    • Weekly Issue 643
      • Returning to work
      • In the public interest
      • One-month extension
    • Weekly Issue 644
      • Menopause at work
      • Long-term effect
      • Workers and employees
    • Weekly Issue 645
      • Increase in older night workers
      • Contractual caps
      • Explicit refusal
    • Weekly Issue 646
      • Disability pay gap
      • Burden of proof
      • Improper behaviour
    • Weekly Issue 647
      • More executive women needed
      • Injustice and hardship
      • Shifting the burden
    • Weekly Issue 648
      • The stress of working
      • Limit on claims
      • Moral right
    • Weekly Issue 649
      • Pensions saving gender gap
      • Award of costs
      • Legal privilege
    • Weekly Issue 650
      • Unfair pay practices
      • Third-party harassment
      • Normal practice
    • Weekly Issue 651
      • Workplace equality and mental health
      • Personal contracts
      • Dismissal notification
    • Weekly Issue 652
      • Protect workers’ rights
      • Covert surveillance
      • Likely to succeed
    • Weekly Issue 653
      • NMW enforcement
      • Right evidence
      • Equal detriment
    • Weekly Issue 654
      • Negative impact of inflexible working
      • Hearing evidence
      • Mental processes
    • Weekly Issue 656
      • Rise in women’s working hours
      • Subjective belief
      • Poor performance
    • Weekly Issue 655
      • Bereavement leave
      • Acting allegation
      • Four-week carry over
    • Weekly Issue 657
      • Board diversity still low
      • Contributory fault
      • London allows
    • Weekly Issue 658
      • Naming and shaming rules
      • Substitute slot
      • Separate meetings
    • Weekly Issue 659
      • Problems with email
      • Reducing compensation
      • Individual blame
    • Weekly Issue 660
      • Outdated skills
      • Driver control
      • Grief reaction
    • Weekly Issue 661
      • Viral sickness
      • Foreign vessels
      • Immune from claims
    • Weekly Issue 662
      • Coronavirus (COVID-19) and SSP
      • Date of disability
      • Employer motive
    • Weekly Issue 663
      • Sick pay protection
      • Take note
      • Illegal contracting
    • Issue 664: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Help for the self-employed
      • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Retention Scheme
      • Emergency Volunteering Leave
    • Issue 665: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Specil Edition
      • Carry-over of holiday
      • Proof of absence from work
      • Stranded abroad
    • Issue 666: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Furlough scheme
      • Holiday carry over
      • Sick pay changes
    • Issue 667: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • More advice on furlough leave
      • Paying contingent workers
      • Consumers stranded abroad
    • Issue 668: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Treasury Direction
      • Further clarifications and complications
      • Pensions: Job Retention Scheme
    • Issue 669: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme portal
      • Statutory sick pay and holidays
    • Issue 670: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • The right to PPE
      • Silencing the whistleblowers
    • Issue 671: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Falling through the furlough gaps
      • Treasury publishes its Direction on self-employment scheme
    • Issue 672: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Government guidance on ‘Working Safely during COVID-19’
      • Guidance for construction and other outdoor workers
      • Guidance for those working in other people’s homes
      • Guidance for those working in labs and research facilities
      • Guidance for those working in offices and contact centres
      • Guidance for those working in factories, plants and warehouses
      • Guidance for those working in restaurants offering takeaway or delivery services
      • Guidance for those working in shops and branches
      • Guidance for those working in or from a vehicle
    • Issue 673: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Government guidance on ‘Holiday Entitlement and Pay during coronavirus COVID-19’
      • Government announces extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
    • Issue 674: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Test and trace
      • Changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
    • Issue 675: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Guidance on changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
      • Gaps in government support identified by Treasury Select Committee
    • Weekly Issue 676
      • Employers urged to be flexible
      • One-off act
      • Claim withdrawal
    • Weekly Issue 677
      • Protection against furlough fraud
      • Reasonable dismissal
      • Conciliation claims
    • Weekly Issue 678
      • Fall in workplace deaths
      • Criminal charge
      • Compensation lump sum
    • Issue 679: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Special Edition
      • Updated Treasury Direction published
      • Implications of the updated Treasury Direction on hours and pay
    • Weekly Issue 680
      • Workers need more protection
      • Missing page
      • Long-term benefits
    • Weekly Issue 681
      • Becoming COVID-Secure
      • Discriminatory motive
      • Health and safety
    • Weekly Issue 682
      • Protect whistleblowers
      • Out on a limb
      • Unclear dismissal
    • Weekly Issue 683
      • One step forward and two back
      • Discriminatory interview
      • Real right of substitution
    • Weekly Issue 684
      • Minimising redundancies
      • Last in a series
      • Putting the boot in
    • Weekly Issue 685
      • TUC calls for end of insecure work
      • Wrongful dismissal
      • Breach of confidentiality
    • Weekly Issue 686
      • Help with redundancies
      • Advantageous transfer
      • Unofficial work
    • Weekly Issue 687
      • Calls for reform of whistleblowing law
      • Case management
      • Marriage discrimination
    • Weekly Issue 688
      • Job protection plan
      • Liable for the remedy
      • Selective criteria
    • Weekly Issue 689
      • Not safe to return
      • Financial package
      • Anonymous dismissal
    • Weekly Issue 690
      • Tribunal changes
      • Because of, or but for?
      • No particular order
    • Weekly Issue 691
      • New coronavirus regulations
      • Job support scheme
      • Strike out
    • Weekly Issue 692
      • Threat of redundancy
      • Job Retention Bonus Scheme
      • A number of transferees
    • Weekly Issue 693
      • Labour market enforcement
      • Extension of the Job Support Scheme
      • Rare case
    • Weekly Issue 694
      • Securing personal data
      • Unfair selection
      • Historical reason
    • Weekly Issue 695
      • Defrauding government support schemes
      • Further changes to the Job Support Scheme
      • No longer trusted
    • Weekly Issue 696
      • The need for good work
      • Changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
      • Unknown risks
    • Weekly Issue 697
      • A whistleblowing pandemic
      • Reasonable redundancy
      • Effect of beliefs
    • Weekly Issue 698
      • Health and safety for workers
      • Collective conciliation
      • Strike out
    • Weekly Issue 699
      • Backwards on equality
      • Further extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
      • Continuing consequences
    • Weekly Issue 700
      • Extension to early conciliation
      • Indirect disadvantage
      • Transnational penalty
    • Weekly Issue 701
      • The consulting room
      • Periods of employment
      • Ultimate control
    • Weekly Issue 702
      • Call to reform sick pay
      • Repudiatory acceptance
      • Fair-minded observer
    • Weekly Issue 703
      • Furlough for working parents
      • The “plus” factor
      • Taking protective steps
    • Weekly Issue 704
      • Changes to furlough support
      • Notice of termination
      • Degree of control
    • Weekly Issue 709
      • Public sector exit payments
      • Reasons for delay
      • Particular claim
    • Weekly Issue 705
      • Domestic Abuse
      • Liability for award
      • Whistleblowing disclosure requirement
    • Weekly Issue 706
      • Fired and then re-hired
      • Prejudiced misrepresentation
      • Irrelevant Redundancy
    • Weekly Issue 707
      • Job retention scheme extended again
      • Facts and allegations
      • Agency vacancies
    • Weekly Issue 708
      • More testing but not enough pay
      • Discrimination remedy
      • Trade union activity
    • Weekly Issue 710
      • Focus on the law
      • Back office role
      • Contract starting point
    • Weekly Issue 711
      • High unemployment rates for BAME workers
      • Difference in treatment
      • Affirming a contract
    • Weekly Issue 712
      • More flexible jobs needed
      • Comparing childcare responsibilties
      • Protecting disabled workers
    • Weekly Issue 713
      • Increase in tribunal figures
      • Jab or job - employers exploit vaccine rollout
      • Lost years
    • Weekly Issue 714
      • Sleep-in care workers lose out
      • Furlough scheme one year on
      • Not a protected act
    • Weekly Issue 715
      • Covid risk to workers
      • Refresher training
      • Camera angle
    • Weekly Issue 716
      • A safe return to work
      • Priority pension schemes
      • Lack of evidence
    • Weekly Issue 717
      • Coronavirus technology
      • Legal protection
      • Tribunals are courts
    • Weekly Issue 718
      • Deadly risks for insecure workers
      • Free from bias
      • Transfer allocation
    • Weekly Issue 719
      • Drivers are workers
      • Auxiliary aids
      • Reasonable prospect of success
    • Weekly Issue 720
      • Improve workers’ rights
      • Successor employer
      • Uplift claim
    • Weekly Issue 721
      • Coronavirus and depression
      • Awake or asleep
      • Unpaid holiday
    • Weeky Issue 722
      • Underpaying the low paid
      • Common terms test
      • Strike out interests
    • Weekly Issue 723
      • Covid deaths at work being under-reported
      • Material differences
      • Carers are workers
    • Weekly Issue 724
      • Trade union membership growing
      • Discriminatory dismissal
      • Severing transfers
    • Weekly Issue 725
      • Direct effect
      • Drivers ruled as workers
      • Individual corporation
    • Weekly Issue 726
      • Certification officer changes
      • Maternity allowance
      • Long term events
    • Weekly Issue 727
      • Disabled by Covid
      • Awarding compensation
      • Overarching contracts
    • Weekly Issue 728
      • No automatic right
      • Health and safety activities
      • Fundamentally breached
    • Weekly Issue 729
      • BME workers lose out
      • Mindful dismissal
      • Trade union activities
    • Weekly Issue 730
      • Increase in workers' deaths
      • Directly effective
      • Gender critical
    • Weekly Issue 731
      • Tribunals at crisis point
      • Interim discrimination
      • Relevant factors
    • Weekly Issue 732
      • Duty to prevent sexual harassment
      • Making adjustments
      • Fair hearing
    • Weekly Issue 733
      • TUC urges ban on umbrella companies
      • Allocation of hours
      • No union recognition
    • Weekly Issue 734
      • Breaching NMW law
      • Whistling in the dark
      • At sea on holiday
    • Weekly Issue 735
      • Paid time off for vaccinations
      • Post-dated dismissal
      • Continuing consequences
    • Weekly Issue 736
      • Low pay, big profits
      • Fair trial impossible
      • Omitting to act
    • Weekly Issue 737
      • Extension to temporary right to work checks
      • Undifferentiated signs
      • Reasonable to dismiss
    • Weekly Issue 738
      • Specifically flexible
      • Effect of impairment
      • Discretionary policy
    • Weekly Issue 739
      • Low paid workers bear the brunt
      • Adjustable pay rate
      • Burden of discrimination
    • Weekly Issue 740
      • Less job satisfaction for low earners
      • Suitable employment
      • Acts of harassment
    • Weekly Issue 741
      • Day one flexibility
      • Fair warning
      • No right of appeal
    • Weekly Issue 742
      • Epidemic of workplace sexual harassment
      • Inducement or implementation
      • Part-time status
    • Weekly Issue 743
      • Discrimination Against Older Workers
      • Breach of Statutory Right
      • Right of Appeal
    • Weekly Issue 744
      • Impact of menopause
      • No hidden motive
      • Whistleblowing claim
    • Weekly Issue 745
      • Hybrid working a hit
      • Caring discrimination
      • Redeployment roles
    • Weekly Issue 746
      • Unlawful inducements
      • Enhanced redundancy payment
      • Tainted by discrimination
    • Weekly Issue 747
      • Big increase in gig economy workers
      • Same policy, different decision
      • Structured approach
    • Weekly Issue 748
      • Don’t fire and rehire
      • Reasoned analysis
      • Special circumstances
    • Weekly Issue 749
      • Ratification of convention on violence
      • Personal substitution
      • Implication of a term
    • Weekly Issue 750
      • Where is the employment bill?
      • Knowledge of disability
      • Perversity itself
    • Weekly Issue 751
      • Sick pay scandal
      • Specific allegation
      • Discrimination by association
    • Weekly Issue 752
      • Hybrid working
      • Automatic dismissal
      • Industrial action protection
    • Weekly Issue 753
      • Disability consultation
      • Two minute stand-by
      • Expenses and deductions
    • Weekly Issue 754
      • Temporary extension to sick pay period
      • In person evidence
      • Critical evaluation
    • Weekly Issue 755
      • Tribunal claims taking a year to be heard
      • Duty of fairness
      • Constructively unfair
    • Weekly Issue 756
      • UK's sick pay problem
      • Levels of discomfort
      • Flexible extension
    • Weekly Issue 757
      • Threat to workers’ rights
      • Employment status of director/shareholder
      • Sole reason
    • Weekly Issue 758
      • Dismissal for refusal to return was unfair
      • Holiday pay
      • Practical joker
    • Weekly Issue 759
      • No discrimination against illegal workers
      • Franchised substitute
      • Internal grievance
    • Weekly Issue 760
      • Bereavement rights at work
      • Contractual consideration
      • Lawful mandatory vaccination
    • Weekly Issue 761
      • Uncontrolled worker surveillance
      • Black cab driver not a worker
      • Specific harassment
    • Weekly Issue 762
      • Slow progress to gender equality
      • One-off act
      • Post-dated discrimination
    • Weekly Issue 763
      • Zero-hours contracts: insecure and racially skewed
      • Minor error
      • Discriminatory job interest
    • Weekly Issue 764
      • Mass sackings in post-Brexit Britain
      • No right of application
      • Quantum meruit
    • Weekly Issue 765
      • In defence of check-off
      • Grounded reasons
      • Minimum obligations
    • Weekly Issue 766
      • Protecting all workers
      • Confidential whistleblowing
      • Limiting justice
    • Weekly Issue 767
      • Race and flexibility
      • Agreeing terms
      • Covenant by design
    • Weekly Issue 768
      • Risks of worker exploitation
      • Correct assessment
      • Vexatious claims
    • Weekly Issue 769
      • Likely increase in redundancies
      • Detrimental effect
      • Distorted finding
    • Weekly Issue 770
      • Disability pay gap narrows
      • Allegations of bias
      • Materially different
    • Weekly Issue 771
      • Menopausal women at work
      • Anonymised disposal
      • Industrial action detriment
    • Weekly Issue 772
      • Minimum wage for seafarers
      • Reasonable detriment
      • Wrong comparators
    • Weekly Issue 773
      • Fifth of employers support “no jab, no job”
      • Public interest disclosure
      • Reasonable tribunal decision
    • Weekly Issue 774
      • Fall in trade union membership
      • Reasonable offence
      • Last straw doctrine
    • Weekly Issue 775
      • Tripling of menopause complaints
      • Statutory tests
      • Objective judgment
    • Weekly Issue 776
      • Avoid “one size fits all” hybrid working
      • No strike-out
      • Serious and imminent danger
    • Weekly Issue 777
      • New guidance for pregnant workers
      • Certification rules
      • Identifying constructive dismissal
    • Weekly Issue 778
      • Increase in damages against trade unions
      • Dismissal without notice
      • Exaggerated claims
    • Weekly Issue 779
      • Threat to workers’ rights from trade talks
      • Third stage test
      • Restraining a key competitor
    • Weekly Issue 780
      • Protected philosophical beliefs
      • Transcript recordings
      • Maximum uplift
    • Weekly Issue 781
      • Increased demand for ACAS services
      • Giving up collective rights
      • Separate numbers
    • Weekly Issue 782
      • Paid neonatal leave
      • Protection undermined
      • Belief and lack of belief protection
    • Weekly Issue 783
      • Challenge to new agency regulations
      • Issues of fairness
      • No diplomatic immunity
    • Weekly Issue 784
      • European work-life balance
      • Perception of bias
      • Least burdensome
    • Weekly Issue 785
      • More rights needed for zero-hours workers
      • State immunity
      • Permanent does not mean forever
    • Weekly Issue 786
      • Harrods threatens use of agency staff
      • Contractual right to check-off
      • Access to insurance policy
    • Weekly Issue 787
      • Penalty for CV fraud
      • Calculating holiday pay
      • Political neutrality
    • Weekly Issue 788
      • Collective strength matters
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