Higgs v Farmor’s School [2020] ET/1401264/2019

Legal news: Employment update

Lauren Bholé rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers The right to request carer’s leave will be a day one employment right, so employees will not need any minimum length of service before they can request the leave. Government publishes its response to the carer’s leave consultation In March 2020, the government launched …

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Philosophical belief: Managing opposing beliefs in the workplace – what employers need to know

Monica Kurnatowska and Rachel Farr assess the impact on employers of the EAT’s decision that ‘gender-critical’ beliefs are protected under the Equality Act The tribunals’ role is not to decide which side is right, or holds the more acceptable views, but to ensure that those with different views tolerate each other. Forstater v CGD Europe …

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Legal news: Employment update

Aisleen Pugh and Sarah Munro round up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers Pleadings drafted in easy-to-read, specific, simple language will be the most effective and a better guarantee of success. Belief in fixed gender is held to be a protected characteristic In Higgs v Farmor’s School [2020], an employment tribunal has held that …

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