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Employment law update; the latest developments in May 2010

Overview

A comprehensive employment law update from SJ Berwin, looking at issues including sexual harassment, age discrimination and job swapping.

Issues covered include:

- Holiday accrued by full-time workers protected when changed to part-time status

- Employee’s openness about his sexuality was relevant to whether harassment occurred

- Requirement to hold degree to qualify for pay tier was not age discrimination

- Christian counsellor denied leave to appeal in sexual orientation discrimination case

- Employers may need to consider job-swapping for disabled employees as a reasonable adjustment

- Expression of an opinion unlikely to be a “protected disclosure”
Tribunal applies Stringer decision in sickness and holiday pay case

- Default retirement age of 48 for football officials was not objectively justified

- No service provision change under TUPE occurred in “run-off” situation

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Tags: Employment.

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