P&E Update: Employment/Employee Benefits Bulletin

Topics covered in this bulletin:

New Law

• Shared parental leave – extension to self-employed contractors?

Cases Round-up

• CJEU rules on pregnancy and collective redundancy
• Redundancy: breach of collective consultation obligations on charity’s collapse
• Stand-by time at home is “working time”
• HMRC wins IR35 claim against BBC journalist using PSC

Points in Practice

• Tax on termination payments: HMRC Employer Bulletin
• GDPR: FCA and ICO joint update
• WEC inquiry into sexual harassment in the workplace
• Employers “in the dark ages” over recruitment of pregnant women and new mothers