Our Employment & HR team brings its monthly review of new legislation, guidance and case law.

NEWS:

The practice of "fire and rehire" has garnered a lot of publicity in recent months. As a result, the government, cognisant of the issues, has committed to publishing a new statutory code of practice, together with legislation regulating it, "when Parliamentary time allows". This has been triggered by the P&O fiasco, as well as other publicity surrounding this tactic. Representations from unions will be allowed during the drafting of the code.

The ONS has confirmed that the UK had a disability pay gap of 13.8% in 2021, with disabled employees earning a median of 12.10 per hour and non-disabled employees earning a median of 14.03 per hour. This increases the disability pay gap from 11.7%, reported in 2014.

Following the absence of the Employment Bill in the Queen's speech which was expected to feature a number of employment points, a senior government official has stated that the intention to introduce legislation for workers to keep tips has been dropped for "the foreseeable future". This will now be introduced as soon as Parliamentary time allows.

A survey of over 1,000 employers has reported a considerable increase in the number of employers stating that home and hybrid working has increased their organisation's productivity or efficiency. When the same question was asked in in October and November 2021, 41% of employers responded that these new ways of working had...

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