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This month, Niki comments on a tribunal's finding that an employer's failure to pay enhanced shared parental pay in circumstances where it paid enhanced maternity pay was NOT sex discrimination. In other news, Rebecca reviews some of the provisions to be introduced under a new code of practice for managing and letting agents.

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Failure to pay dad parental pay is not sex discrimination

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has found that failure to pay a male employee enhanced shared parental pay in circumstances where it did pay enhanced pay to women on maternity leave, was not direct sex discrimination.

In the case of Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali and another UKEAT/0161/17, Mr Ali was…

Crackdown on rogue letting and managing agents

The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced plans to establish an independent regulator and introduce a mandatory code of practice for managing and letting agents.

The code will be developed by a working group made up of letting, managing and estate agents, tenants and regulation experts. The group is expected to…

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