Weekly Issue 683

One step forward and two back

Despite the introduction of legislation to ensure that furloughed employees receive full redundancy pay, the government has simultaneously cut back on furlough pay grants to employers and is encouraging a return to the workplace in the face of local flare-ups (...).

Discriminatory interview

The Court of Justice of the European Union has held in NH v Associazione Avvocatura per I diritti LGBTI that remarks made by the owner of a law firm during a radio interview when he said he would not employ gay people could come within the provisions of the Equal Treatment Directive. However, it was for the courts to ensure a link between the statements made and the employer’s recruitment process (...).

Real right of substitution

The Court of Justice of the European Union has indicated in B v Yodel Delivery Network Ltd that a delivery driver whose contract allowed him to appoint a substitute and who was not in a relationship of subordination to the company (provided that was what happened in reality) was not a worker and could not therefore claim holiday pay under the Working Time Directive (...).