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Redundancy rights for pregnant employees and those on maternity leave
XpertHR's head of content Jo Stubbs and senior employment law editor Clio Springer discuss the rights of pregnant employees and those on maternity leave in a redundancy situation.
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Take part in our benefits and allowances survey 2012
Take part in our survey to benchmark the scope and value of your organisation's benefits and allowances against those offered by other organisations. All participants will receive a free copy of the findings and will be entered into a prize draw.
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Tribunal update: Theft of Entonox not a consequence of depression
We provide summaries of two recent tribunal decisions on claims for discrimination arising from disability, including a paramedic's theft of the medical anaesthesia gas Entonox held not to be a consequence of his depression.
Disciplinary suspension: checklist
We provide a checklist for employers that are considering suspension pending a disciplinary investigation.
FAQs: References and evidence in disciplinary proceedings
Additions to the FAQs section cover providing a reference for a former or current employee and handling new evidence that emerges during a disciplinary procedure.
Line manager briefing PowerPoint presentations: Maternity
PowerPoint presentations to accompany the line manager briefings on basic maternity rights and maternity rights that apply in specific situations have been added to the XpertHR line manager briefing section.
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What does maternity leave cost employers?
The average annual bill for maternity leave per organisation, including the cost of replacements, is around £125,000, according to the latest XpertHR research.
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Agency Workers Regulations having mixed impact on employers
The latest XpertHR research finds two-thirds of organisations reporting no change in their use of agencies to find temporary staff since the introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations.
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Car dealership required to pay £35,000 in national minimum wage ruling
A round-up of links to news items on employment tribunal rulings in the week beginning 9 April 2012, including an order from an employment tribunal for car dealership Pendragon to pay £35,000 over non-payment of the national minimum wage after an HM Revenue and Customs investigation.
Is the rise in part-time working "a good thing"?
"The increase in people working part time is a good thing," says Recruitment and Employment Confederation chief executive Kevin Green, responding to Office for National Statistics data showing that the number of part-time workers is rising rapidly while the number of full-time workers is falling.
Are the HR trenches the best place to be in 2012?
US jobs website CareerCast last week rated human resources manager as number three in its countdown of the 10 best jobs of 2012/13.
Prospects for recovery: double-dip recession risk is finely balanced
We present an overview of latest predictions as to the potential path of UK economic growth in 2012 and beyond.
The HR data tapes: HR lifers, CIPD qualifications, analytics and more
XpertHR's monthly data round-up post includes a selection of links to a wide range of useful blog posts on matters relating to HR data ... and to HR's use of data.
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Coming soon to XpertHR
Forthcoming additions to XpertHR include a Liveflo workflow on preparing for pensions auto-enrolment and a policy on reintroduction into the workplace on return from adoption leave.
Latest additions to XpertHR services
A number of enhancements have been made to XpertHR's case reports stop press and FAQs sections.
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DISCRIMINATION ARISING FROM DISABILITY
The Equality Act 2010 introduced the concept of discrimination arising from disability. This covers the situation where a disabled person is treated unfavourably, not because of the disability itself but because of something arising in consequence of it, such as the need for periods of absence from work. Although such situations were previously covered by the concept of disability-related discrimination in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the 2008 case of London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm significantly reduced the protection provided.
This week we report two employment tribunal decisions where employees claimed discrimination arising from disability: one where the claimant was successful and the other where the claim failed. Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide good illustrations of the situations that may lead to claims of discrimination arising from disability, and how the tribunals are dealing with them. We also discuss the cases in this week's podcast.
 Jo Stubbs
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