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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


PART 1

STATUTORY UPDATE


QUICK STATUTORY UPDATE

•Fast Tracks ETs•National Minimum Wage upgrades

•Additional Paternity leave•Blacklisting rules•ACAS role(s)?

•Agency workers


EQUALITY ACT

•April 2010 enacted

•In force 1.10.10

•New general duty from 1/4/11

‘uniformity in approach’


EQUALITY ACT

Protected Characteristics:•Age•Disability•Gender Reassignment•Marriage and Civil Partnership•Pregnancy and Maternity•Race•Religion or Belief•Sex•Sexual Orientation


(New) Discrimination?

•Direct •Associative •Perceptive •Indirect •Harassment•Third party harassment•Victimisation


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


Guidance

•Explanatory Memorandum

•Guidance

•EHRC Code

GEO’s role?


Key Changes

•Duty to make reasonable adjustments

•Harassment – extended definition

•Victimisation – no longer comparator evidence


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


Remedies

S.124 EA 2010

•Declarations•Compensation •‘appropriate’ recommendations


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?


Coffee


Working Time

•Shah v First West Yorks Ltd


Unfair Dismissal

•Willoughby v C F Capital

•Muschett v HMP Service

•Hunter v Timber Components


Unfair Dismissal II

•City of Edinburgh v Dickson

•A v B

•Samuel Smiths Brewery v Marshall

•Bashir v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals


Equal Pay

•City of Edinburgh v Wilkinson

•Brownhill v St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals

•Bury MBC v Hamilton


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


Disability Discrimination•J v DLA

•SS for DWP v Wilson

•RBS v Ashton

•CC of S Yorks v Jelic


DDA II

•X v Mid Sussex CAB

•Aylott v Stockton on Tees BC


Redundancy

•Pinewood Repro v Page

•Morgan v Welsh RUFC

•Lancaster U v UCU

•Shanahan Engineering v UNITE


Religion or Belief Discrimination

•Ladele v LB of Islington

•McFarlane v Relate Avon


Racial Discrimination

•MOD v DeBique

•Com of Met Police v Osinaike


Sex/Sex Orientation Discrimination

•Thaine v LSE

•Grant

•SS for DWP v McCarthy

•Lisboa v Real Pubs


TUPE•CLECE v Socorro

•Ward Hadaway Sols v Love

•Nationwide BS v Benn

•Todd v Strain

•Cable Realisations v GMB

•UNISON v Somerset CC


Whistleblowing

•Feccit v NHS Manchester

•Goode v M&S


Miscellaneous

•Bullock v Norfolk CC


Lunch


PART 3

BEST PRACTICE – KEY THEME : HANDLING REDUNDANCIES

[WITHOUT HEADACHES]


Redundancy

•S. 139 ERA 1996

•Redundancy scenarios

•30-90 days?


Case law Guidance

•Williams v Compair Maxam (Morgan v WRFU)

•Murray

•Safeway & Shawkat


Selection

•Pools?

•Criteria?

•Objectivity?


Suitable Alternative Employment

– Thomas & Betts

– Fisher

Employees? – suggestions

Employer? - reasonable steps?


Consultation

•S. 188 TULRCA 1992?

STEPS:•Notice (collective and/or individual?)

•Basis of selection•Assessment/scoring

•Right to reply to assessment


Protective Awards

– ‘Radin’ guidelines– 30-90 days

– 20+ employees– ‘meaningful’ consultation


Redundancy pay

Statutory formula or contractual enhanced?

.18(B)(1) ‘balancing exercise’:


Redundancy risk management

Statutory framework

Consult!!!!

Consider alternatives

Pay


Checklist

Business reasons?

Pool/selection?

Marking?

Meeting?

Alternatives?

Outcomes/Dismissals!


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PART 4

CASE STUDY


THE CASE STUDY

•What?•Who?

•When?•Where

and•How?


HR Best Practice

•Facts

•Issues

•Law

•Solutions


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