UPDATE : Spain : December 2020
Upcoming changes to employment and HR compliance law: Gender Equality. UPDATE Spain December 2020 For more information, please contact Tatevik Grigorian: tatevik.grigorian@igloballaw.com
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Gender pay gap reporting update : UK and Germany
Great Britain (i.e. not Northern Ireland) Gender pay gap reporting now applies to the private sector in Great Britain and to the public sector in England. Employers with 250 or more employees must report on the difference between the average earnings of men and women in their organisation by showing the mean
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Gender pay gap reporting obligations in the UK come into force on April 6th this year. Draft compliance guidelines have been published to help companies comply with their new obligations. Who must report? Any ’employer’ who has more than 250 ‘relevant employees’ in any year. ‘Relevant’ means employees on April
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Holiday Payment and Commission The Employment Appeals Tribunal has confirmed, as expected, that commission payments should be included in the calculation of holiday pay. Holiday pay should be based on ‘normal remuneration’ which should include variable elements like commission and non-guaranteed overtime. Holiday pay based solely on basic salary is
Read MoreWomen on Board : EU directive that hopes to bring gender balance
Moves at European Union level to introduce quotas for women on the boards of listed companies continue, if slowly. In June, the EU issued a progress report on its draft EU Gender Directive. The draft Directive, which does not yet have unanimous support amongst Member States, would require Member States
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