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