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Sunday 10 October 2021 marks World Mental Health Day, with this year’s official theme announced by the World Federation for Mental Health as “Mental Health in an Unequal World”.

We spend approximately 90,000 hours of our lives at work. The only thing we spend more time doing than working, is sleeping.

The latest round in a bitterly fought contest in California over employment status, could set the tone for the gig economy and beyond. 

Sexual harassment in the workplace has been against the law for decades, but the UK Government has confirmed it will take steps to introduce a new legal duty in this area ’when parliamentary time allows’. 

Employment agency Reed has reported a 20% increase in the number of new positions offering unlimited annual leave as part of the benefits packages. Along with flexible working, it seems to be incentive employers are keen to explore and use as they compete to recruit the best talent from a pandemic weary workforce that values well-being and work-life balance.

Clarkslegal Employment Associate, Deborah Scales, comments in The Sun on whether employers can stop employees taking foreign holidays.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has been billed a staggering £87.9 million by HMRC for failing to correctly determine the tax status of its contractors.

So called “Freedom Day” was justified by the government in part because of the huge success of the vaccine roll-out in England.

How much reliance can employers put on vaccination status when planning a safe return to the physical workplace?

The Government has published its consultation response on workplace sexual harassment and harassment by third parties.  The consultation was undertaken in response to the #metoo movement, which revealed that many people (mainly women) experienced sexual harassment at work despite this having been unlawful for decades.  

The Government have released a list of 16 ‘critical’ sectors in which workers who are fully vaccinated will not need to self-isolate if they are contacted by NHS Test and Trace or notified by the NHS app.