HR Law – December 2019

In this issue we will cover the following themes and stories:

• Employee automatically unfairly dismissed for making protected disclosures even though person taking decision to dismiss was unaware of those disclosures

• Anti-trade union motivation on investigator's part could be attributed to employer

• Equal pay: material factor defence continues to operate until new decision on pay

• Homophobic remarks and the Equal Treatment Directive

• Member States can limit carry-over of holiday to 4 week entitlement under WTD in sickness absence cases

• Election manifestos: what's on the agenda for employment?

• Calculating holiday entitlement: new holiday calculator published by Government

• ICO publishes detailed guidance on special category data

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