Welcome to February's Law at Work. This month, we focus on gender pay gap reporting: a new obligation from 6 April 2017 on private employers in England, Wales and Scotland (but not Northern Ireland) with 250 or more employees to report on their gender pay gap between male and female employees.

When are cases on when employers can take an employee's previous disciplinary history into account like buses? When they come in threes... We consider what employers need to know from recent decisions in our second feature article.

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