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Charities make new safeguarding commitments

Following a recent summit of international development charities, attended by Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, Bond, the umbrella body, has published a set of 12 commitments that the sector will now follow. This is the …

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Big pay out for settlement agreements in top Universities

The top “Russell group” Universities paid out more than £15m for hundreds of settlement agreements in the last academic year, according to a report in People Management. Twelve members of the Russell Group that responded to FOI …

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Case law updates

“Offensive” tweeter unfairly dismissed after investigation failures

A civil servant who was dismissed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after he posted “racist and political” tweets from a personal social media account was unfairly dismissed, an Employment tribunal has found. …

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Save the Children to take action on workplace culture

  An independent review into workplace vulture at the charity Save the Children has found that almost one in five staff have experienced harassment or discrimination. Twenty-eight per cent of the 700 current members of …

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Case law updates

Refusal to postpone a disciplinary hearing was “procedurally unfair”

  In the case of Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, Mrs Smith, a long-serving employee of Talon Engineering Ltd sent ‘unprofessional’ emails to a contact. She also tried to hide some of these emails from her …

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Universities must to do more to support sexual harassment complaints

UK universities need to do more to avoid “failing sexual harassment victims”, according to research by the 1752 Group, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The researchers interviewed a small number of …

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