Our monthly employment law round up.
Ethnicity pay gap guidance to be published
In a policy paper published in March last year the UK Government confirmed it would not be legislating for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting "at this stage". It did though commit to producing guidance for employers on voluntary reporting and this was expected last summer so it is now somewhat overdue. When questioned in February 2023 on when this guidance was expected BEIS Parliamentary Under-Secretary Kevin Hollinrake confirmed that guidance would be published "in due course".
Waiting times for employment tribunal hearings on the increase
In response to a written question in Parliament, on 8 February the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice confirmed that the waiting time from a tribunal application being received to the first hearing (which may be a preliminary one) had increased to 49 weeks for the period January to March 2021. Pre-pandemic (January to December 2019) the wait period was 38 weeks, although even that was a 6 week increase on the same period in 2018. In the period Jan to December 2020, once the pandemic was underway, the wait time had increased again to 46 weeks. These figures are believed to be based on UK wide figures rather than just England and Wales although the response to the question does not make this clear.
UK Government backs Private Members' Bill to combat "one-sided flexibility"
The Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill is a Private...
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