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ICO issues guidance on workplace monitoring
Regulator aims to help employers fully comply with data protection law

Fair Work Oversight Group begins work today
Scottish Government forum to report early next year

Member bill for Employment Injuries Council begins life
Advisory body will help devise appropriate benefit regime

LawCare publishes new guidance on workplace anxiety
Mental Health Awareness Week marked by help for leaders and people managers

Deaf trainee becomes Balfour+Manson disability officer
Diana McIver helping Law Society project to improve disability inclusion

Employment tribunal backlog still growing, figures show
Nearly half a million claims awaiting first hearing at end of 2022

Robert Holland joins Aberdein Considine
Senior lawyer is named firm's Head of Employment Law

MSPs want to hear of barriers to disabled finding work
Committee calls for views ahead of further work in the area

Employment tribunals issue witness statement direction
Scots practice direction and presidential guidance apply from 1 October

Legal workplace projects among Equality Fund awards
Gender based violence and neurodiversity schemes to receive funding

Employers warned over health and safety as heat bites
Workers may be entitled to leave unless protective measures in place

Domestic slavery exempt from diplomatic immunity: UKSC
Supreme Court allows tribunal claim of forced trafficking and slavery

Susan Walker named new Employment Tribunals President
Vice-President steps up to new role

Aberdein Considine expands with Edinburgh merger
Combined business will employ more than 480 staff

HSE tackles work-related stress in new campaign
Regulator calls for mental health risk to be treated like physical risk

Union members win appeal over company's direct offers
Letters bypassing negotiations were breach of legislation

Tribunal claimant must seek interim diligence in court
Supreme Court: lack of employment tribunal power not a breach of EU law

"Fair work" agenda goes out to views
Ministers seek views on opportunities, and barriers

Consultation runs on shutting large shops for New Year
Ministers ask whether Christmas Day closing should also apply on 1 January

Recruitment consultants' restrictive covenants upheld
Court confirms interim interdict against competing for six months across UK

IBA marks Women's Day with major project launch
Nine year programme will seek gender parity blueprint by 2030

Claire Armstrong takes leadership role at Dentons
Promotion creates all-female top team in Scotland

Supreme Court rules against Uber in "workers" appeal
Employment Tribunal justified in finding that drivers were "workers"

Holyrood rejects workplace deaths law change
Bill could be considered again after May election