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CIPD MANCHESTER - EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011. ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE & REVIEW 2011 Rachel Wedderspoon and Stephen Hardy. CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011. Welcome. CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011. PART 1 STATUTORY UPDATE.
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CIPD MANCHESTER - EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE & REVIEW 2011 Rachel Wedderspoon and Stephen Hardy
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 PART 1 STATUTORY UPDATE
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 QUICK STATUTORY UPDATE Fast Tracks ETs National Minimum Wage upgrades Additional Paternity leave Blacklisting rules ACAS role(s)? Agency workers
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 EQUALITY ACT April 2010 enacted In force 1.10.10 New general duty from 1/4/11 ‘uniformity in approach’
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 EQUALITY ACT Protected Characteristics: Age Disability Gender Reassignment Marriage and Civil Partnership Pregnancy and Maternity Race Religion or Belief Sex Sexual Orientation
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 (New) Discrimination? Direct Associative Perceptive Indirect Harassment Third party harassment Victimisation
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Changes in a nutshell No change – age, marriage/civil partnerships, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, New definitions - disability and gender reassignment
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Guidance Explanatory Memorandum Guidance EHRC Code GEO’s role?
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Key Changes Duty to make reasonable adjustments Harassment – extended definition Victimisation – no longer comparator evidence
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Key Changes II Direct discrimination – s. 13 It requires an actual or hypothetical comparator Combined discrimination: dual characteristics – s. 14 Disability specific – s. 15 Harassment – s. 26
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Remedies S.124 EA 2010 Declarations Compensation ‘appropriate’ recommendations
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Tribunal Reform 2012? 27/1/2011 announcement Consultation until 20/4/2011 Proposals: - ACAS mediation - Ending vexatious claims - end of industrial jury? Employer’s Charter?
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Working Time Shah v First West Yorks Ltd
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Unfair Dismissal Willoughby v C F Capital Muschett v HMP Service Hunter v Timber Components
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Unfair Dismissal II City of Edinburgh v Dickson A v B Samuel Smiths Brewery v Marshall Bashir v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Equal Pay City of Edinburgh v Wilkinson Brownhill v St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals Bury MBC v Hamilton
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Age discrimination Kraft Foods UK v Hastie Keane v Investigo Homer v CC of West Yorks Rosenbladt v Oellerking/Wolf v Stadt Frankfurt am Main Woodcock v Cumbria PCT
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Disability Discrimination J v DLA SS for DWP v Wilson RBS v Ashton CC of S Yorks v Jelic
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 DDA II X v Mid Sussex CAB Aylott v Stockton on Tees BC
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Redundancy Pinewood Repro v Page Morgan v Welsh RUFC Lancaster U v UCU Shanahan Engineering v UNITE
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Religion or Belief Discrimination Ladele v LB of Islington McFarlane v Relate Avon
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Racial Discrimination MOD v DeBique Com of Met Police v Osinaike
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Sex/Sex Orientation Discrimination Thaine v LSE Grant SS for DWP v McCarthy Lisboa v Real Pubs
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 TUPE CLECE v Socorro Ward Hadaway Sols v Love Nationwide BS v Benn Todd v Strain Cable Realisations v GMB UNISON v Somerset CC
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Whistleblowing Feccit v NHS Manchester Goode v M&S
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Miscellaneous Bullock v Norfolk CC
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 PART 3 BEST PRACTICE – KEY THEME : HANDLING REDUNDANCIES [WITHOUT HEADACHES]
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Redundancy S. 139 ERA 1996 Redundancy scenarios 30-90 days?
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Case law Guidance Williams v Compair Maxam (Morgan v WRFU) Murray Safeway & Shawkat
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Selection Pools? Criteria? Objectivity?
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Suitable Alternative Employment Thomas & Betts Fisher Employees? – suggestions Employer? - reasonable steps?
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Consultation S. 188 TULRCA 1992? STEPS: Notice (collective and/or individual?) Basis of selection Assessment/scoring Right to reply to assessment
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Protective Awards ‘Radin’ guidelines 30-90 days 20+ employees ‘meaningful’ consultation
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Redundancy pay Statutory formula or contractual enhanced? .18(B)(1) ‘balancing exercise’:
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Redundancy risk management Statutory framework Consult!!!! Consider alternatives Pay
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Checklist Business reasons? Pool/selection? Marking? Meeting? Alternatives? Outcomes/Dismissals!
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 PART 4 CASE STUDY
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 THE CASE STUDY What? Who? When? Where and How?
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 HR Best Practice Facts Issues Law Solutions
CIPD MANCHESTER – EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 Any Questions?
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