Islington Solicitors

Freeze on hiring staff

According to a survey of 1,000 small businesses by the accountancy software powerhouse sage, nearly 80% of small businesses will not be hiring staff this year. The research also confirms again that it’s graduates who are suffering most. Employers do need to be wary of age discrimination. Most employers think of this as applying to not hiring older staff but it can equally apply to younger people. Employers should also remember that a discrimination case can be brought notwithstanding no job offer is made. In other words, be careful in the whole recruitment process.

Reverse inequality

There is rightly a lot of research and comment on the fact that in many jobs women undertaking a similar or same role as men are still paid less. However, as with all things in life, there are exceptions and in a somewhat surprising answer to a prescient Freedom of Information request. It transpires, somewhat embarrassingly for the Government, that at the Equality Office women are being paid nearly 8% more. The discrepancy may at least be partially explained by the relatively small number of people in the team concerned at just over 100 and the fact that in that team some 2/3 of staff are female.

In overall terms, research suggests that nationally men get paid just over 10% more than women. This seems to be reducing year on year at present, showing that employers are becoming more aware of their equal pay legal obligations.

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