Yesterday the Government published the draft The Equality Act (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2016 and their response to consultation in relation to ways in which the gender pay gay can be eliminated.
Over the course of 2015 one of the employment law “hot topics” was zero hours contracts, and Regulations were brought in prohibiting any clause in a zero hours contract which states that a worker could not work elsewhere (an exclusivity clause).
We previously reported that the Advocate General in the European Court, in the case of Tyco Integrated Security SL, had suggested that where an employee has no fixed place of work, and is peripatetic, time spent travelling to the first customer of the day, and home from the last customer, would be travel time for the purposes of the Working Time Directive.