Weekly issue 597

Treading the boards

A government-backed review has found that, of the top 350 companies in the UK, almost one in four have only one woman on their board while five have none at all.

Constructing deductions

The law says that tribunals can only hear breach of contract claims on termination of employment. In the conjoined case of Agarwal v Cardiff University and Nexus v Anderson and ors, the Court of Appeal held that tribunals can hear unlawful deduction of wages claims, even if they involve construction of the claimant’s contract of employment.

Parental status

The Court of Justice of the European Union held in Tribunalul Botoşani and anor v Dicu that member states are not prevented from legislating that holiday does not accrued during parental leave despite a worker retaining their worker status.