CIPD MANCHESTER - EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011 ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE & REVIEW 2011 Rachel Wedderspoon and Stephen Hardy
Jan 19, 2016
CIPD MANCHESTER - EMPLOYMENT LAW REVIEW 2011
ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT LAW
UPDATE & REVIEW
2011
Rachel Wedderspoon
and
Stephen Hardy
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Welcome
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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?
•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,
• New definitions - disability and gender reassignment
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Guidance
•Explanatory Memorandum
•Guidance
•EHRC Code
GEO’s role?
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Key Changes
•Duty to make reasonable adjustments
•Harassment – extended definition
•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
•Disability specific – s. 15
•Harassment – s. 26
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Remedies
S.124 EA 2010
•Declarations•Compensation •‘appropriate’ recommendations
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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?
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Coffee
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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
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Lunch
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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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Tea
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PART 4
CASE STUDY
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THE CASE STUDY
•What?•Who?
•When?•Where
and•How?
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HR Best Practice
•Facts
•Issues
•Law
•Solutions
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