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Author Archives: wonkypolicywonk
Hey, Barons Adonis & Cashman, some Bills are only about women. Get over it.
Last week, it emerged that Hibo Wardere, a survivor of and indefatigable campaigner against what even the woke kids at Amnesty International still call Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), has started selling T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “I am a woman. … Continue reading
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Employment Tribunals: The Times they are a-changin’
Yes, as you will know unless you are spending #Lockdown3 on Mars, on Monday the Times newspaper and its Investigations Editor Dominic Kennedy went Back to the Future of 2011, with not one but four articles straight out of the … Continue reading
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Binary arithmetic
News that the global Covid19 lockdown has led to two pandas in Hong Kong Zoo mating for the first time in ten years seems as good a reason as any for me to blog, for the first time, about sex. … Continue reading
ET claims: no sign of the end of garbage press reports
Previously on this blog, I have noted that this year sees the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970. And I suppose it was only to be expected that one or more law firms would use … Continue reading
Dominic’s cumming home
He’s cumming home, He’s cumming home, Dominic’s cumming home. But which home? On what date? And by what means of transport? These and many other questions remain unanswered, 24 hours after 14 out of 26 Cabinet ministers took to Twitter to … Continue reading
Shared Parental Leave: No need for candles
Until it got wiped out by the Covid19 pandemic, this year was a busy one for #ukemplaw anniversaries. And many of them are (or, at least, were) a cause for celebration: the Equal Pay Act 1970 is 50 years old … Continue reading
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Tagged Maternity leave, Paternity leave, Shared parental leave
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Latest ET claim stats: onwards and upwards
Once again, there is some good news this morning for any underemployed employment lawyers, with the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics, covering the period October to December 2019 (Q3 of 2019/20), showing yet another small increase in the … Continue reading
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It’s a shame about BEIS
So, just like James Bond, naming & shaming of employers who breach the national minimum/living wage is back. Well, almost back. Having been suspended since the last round of naming & shaming in July 2018, pending the outcome of a … Continue reading
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Tagged naming & shaming, National minimum wage, NMW enforcement
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New Year, new enforcement body?
So, Boris Johnson held and won the general election that, back in August, I predicted he might well hold and win on the back of a ‘deal’ with the EU27 that, at that time, most commentators thought less likely than … Continue reading
New ET claim stats: don’t hold the front page
On Friday, when you were possibly too busy drowning your sorrows to notice, the Ministry of Injustice published the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics, covering the period July to September 2019 (Q2 of 2019/20). And, at first … Continue reading
