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• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 06.03.10 to 19.03.10

  A round up of links to news items on recent employment tribunal rulings, including: an unsuccessful age discrimination claim by a TV journalist; the first decision on trade union blacklisting; and an award for a chip shop worker who was dismissed for... Posted Mar 19 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, equal opportunities, termination of employment, employee rights, sex discrimination, redundancy, national minimum wage, employment tribunals, dismissal, pregnancy, unfair dismissal, blacklisting, age discrimination, lay-offs

• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 06.02.10 to 19.02.10

  A round up of links to news items on recent employment tribunal rulings, including: compensation for a harassed female soldier; a decision on sickness during annual leave; and the resolution of a zero-hours contract dispute. Read More... Posted Feb 22 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, recruitment, termination of employment, employee rights, holiday, contracts of employment, sex discrimination, harassment, contracts, employment tribunals, sickness, dismissal, unfair dismissal, agency workers, sick leave, annual leave, sickness absence

• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 23.01.10 to 05.02.10

  A round up of links to news items on recent employment tribunal rulings, including: hundreds of former workers in a caravan manufacturer who may not see the money that they were awarded by an employment tribunal; an alleged refusal by Corus to reinstate... Posted Feb 05 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, harassment, trade unions, redundancy, employment tribunals, dismissal, unfair dismissal

• Employment tribunals: what would you like to see covered?

  XpertHR's case reporting has been improved with the addition of a new service providing summaries of new employment decisions, as well as the full transcripts of the cases , to go alongside our more detailed monthly summaries on a particular area... Posted Jan 27 2010, 11:53 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, discrimination, disability discrimination, race discrimination, disability, sexual harassment, reasonable adjustments

• Pregnancy and maternity leave: common discrimination pitfalls

  XpertHR's new series of detailed summaries of employment tribunal decisions has continued with a look at five tribunal claims for pregnancy and maternity leave discrimination [subscription required]. Read More... Posted Jan 25 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, maternity leave, pregnancy

• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 09.01.10 to 22.01.10

  A round up of links to recent employment tribunal rulings, including a successful unfair dismissal claim by Weston-Super-Mare pier staff who were made redundant after it was damaged in a fire, compensation for an engineer who was dismissed for failing... Posted Jan 22 2010, 12:49 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, harassment, redundancy, employment tribunals, race discrimination, time off, dismissal, pregnancy, unfair dismissal, resignation, constructive dismissal

• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 12.12.09 to 25.12.09

  A round up of links to recent employment tribunal rulings, including a lorry driver who was unfairly dismissed after a row with a customer, a straight teacher who lost his sexual orientation discrimination claim, and a Northern Ireland industrial tribunal... Posted Dec 25 2009, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, employee rights, sex discrimination, employment tribunals, sexual orientation, dismissal, pregnancy, shift work, unfair dismissal, working time, rest breaks

• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 28.11.09 to 11.12.09

  A round up of links to recent employment tribunal rulings, including an employer that tried to pacify an employee who had been racially abused with a 15p pay rise, a hospital chef who was dismissed for eating a piece of garlic bread, and an estate agent... Posted Dec 11 2009, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, redundancy, job applications, race discrimination, christmas, unfair dismissal

• Lap dancing research officer required

  The School of Sociology and Social Policy at Leeds University has advertised a vacancy for a research officer to look into "the rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the night time economy". The... Posted Dec 01 2009, 09:19 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, sex discrimination, sexual harassment

• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 14.11.09 to 27.11.09

  A round up of links to recent employment tribunal rulings, including a decision that a spiritualist was not discriminated against because of his beliefs, an £800,000 payout for a former News of the World reporter who claimed bullying, and £440,000 compensation... Posted Nov 27 2009, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, employee rights, sex discrimination, harassment, religion, employment tribunals, dismissal, sexual harassment, unfair dismissal, philosophical belief, whistleblowing, compensation

• Employment tribunals: redundancy-related claims skyrocket

  To no one's great surprise, the number of employment tribunal claims related to redundancy went up dramatically for the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009, according to new Tribunals Service statistics (PDF format, 257K) (on its website). Read More... Posted Sep 30 2009, 02:28 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, age, termination of employment, sex discrimination, discrimination, redundancy, religion, disability discrimination, employment tribunals, race discrimination, disability, employment tribunal figures

• Gender pay gap reversed in Whitehall

  Women earn more than men in many public sector organisations - but only in lower grade jobs, according to research from the BBC . Figures obtained under a freedom of information request show that in 14 out of 17 organisations, women earned more than men... Posted Jul 10 2009, 04:30 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: salary surveys, pay and benefits, celre, equal opportunities, sex discrimination, equal pay, equality audit

• The Equality Bill: simplifying discrimination law?

  By distilling the current discrimination legislation into one Equality Bill, the Government hopes to achieve a clearer legal framework for equality that will be easier to understand and implement. But has it done this? The three-part detailed analysis... Posted Jun 30 2009, 12:25 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, sex discrimination, discrimination, equality bill, disability discrimination, race discrimination, positive action

• Female gondolier breaks 900 years of Venetian tradition

  If you think your industry is male-dominated, spare a thought for all the aspiring female gondoliers in Venice. It's being reported (on the Guardian website) that Giorgia Boscolo has become the first woman in 900 years to become a gondolier on the... Posted Jun 30 2009, 10:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, recruitment, sex discrimination, discrimination, international

• Too few heroines in IT

  Women in IT earn less, are judged more harshly and expected to achieve higher standards than their male colleagues, according to recent research by Women In Technology. Read More... Posted May 29 2009, 05:32 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, sex discrimination, discrimination