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Round-up of April 2020 employment law changes
...employment law changes Here’s our at a glance round-up of employment law changes coming into force in April 1 April National living and minimum wage increases The new rates are: ...
Recent Cases
Equal pay claims: Retail employees can compare themselves to distribution employees
...employment tribunal rejected Asda’s argument and Asda appealed unsuccessfully to the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. Supreme Court rules common terms apply The Supreme Court dism...
Recent Cases
Age Discrimination: Considering retirement requests
Age Discrimination: Considering retirement requests In Ayodele v Compass Group plc, an Employment Tribunal has found that a request to work beyond the age of 65 years (the Default Retirement Age) must...
Are the Days of the Zero Hours Contract Numbered? - as published in Tolley's Employment Law Newsletter
...employment figures are currently under-reported as a result of the use of zero hours contracts and if they were outlawed, unemployment figures would certainly rise. Therefore, some cynics may say that...
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City Link Directors Cleared of Failing to Notify BIS of Collective Redundancies
City Link Directors Cleared of Failing to Notify BIS of Collective Redundancies Three directors of City Link prosecuted for failing to notify BIS of collective redundancies have been cleared. City Lin...
Podcast No. 2 - Social Media In The Workplace
Podcast No. 2 - Social Media In The Workplace Piers Leigh-Pollitt and Dan Begbie-Clench discuss the issues employers are confronted with when dealing with the use of Social Media in and out of the wor...
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Gender Pay Reporting Obligations: Timescale and Further Details Now Confirmed
...employment, a contract of apprenticeship or a contract personally to do work, although this is not clear from the draft regulations themselves. David Cameron previously announced that the obligatio...
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Refund of Employment Tribunal Fees Underway
...Employment Tribunal Central Office (England and Wales)/Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) Fees PO Box 10218 Leicester LE1 8EG For proceedings in Scotland:Employment Tribunals Central Of...
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Is hirer liability on the increase?
...Employment Law Journal. Click here to read the article in full.
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Best practice guidance on confidentiality agreements issued by Equality and Human Rights Commission
...employment The guidance recognises that employers are entitled to protect confidential information, such as trade secrets, customer contact lists and sensitive pricing information. However, the Equal...
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Information Technology: WhatsApp got to do, got to do with it?
...Employment Law Journal.
Childcare and the strikes - How should employers deal with absent parents? HR MAGAZINE
...employment lawyer at Doyle Clayton Solicitors. This article first appeared online at HR Magazine on 4 July 2011. You can view the article here.
Recent Cases
Employee Lost Right to Claim Constructive Dismissal After 18 Month Delay in Resigning
...employment tribunal agreed, finding that she had affirmed the employment contract. It relied on the following factors as evidence that she had affirmed the contract: acceptance of 39 weeks’ sick pay;...
Lessons from the Recession Pt 1 - HR MAGAZINE ONLINE
...employment are set in stone. Changing them can be a long and laborious process, as extensive consultation may well be required which might even involve terminating the existing contracts of employment...
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - as published in Global Banking & Finance Review
...employment tribunal. Cases such as this highlight the difficulties faced by employers. Sexual harassment allegations can be a tricky area to investigate and employers have to make a judgment as to wh...
Recent Cases
The without prejudice rule: exaggerated allegations and unambiguous impropriety
...employment. This was an abuse of without prejudice privilege. The employer appealed to the Employment Appeal Tribunal which overturned the employment tribunal decision. The Employment Appeal Trib...
Recent Cases
Re-engagement Order Upheld Despite Breakdown in Working Relationship
...employment tribunal took the view that it was practicable for the employment relationship to continue as W could work at a different school with different colleagues. In addition, the HR department w...
COVID-19: How to Process Employees’ Health Data
...employment and data privacy law experts Piers Leigh-Pollitt and Mike Hibberd guide employers through the thorny questions arising with health data in light of COVID-19. Areas they look at include: W...
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Legislation to extend health and safety detriment protection to workers
...Employment tribunal claimsWhere employers do treat employees or workers detrimentally, they may dace an employment tribunal claim with no cap on compensation and a possible injury to feelings awards o...
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EU Settlement Scheme – less than a month left to apply!
EU Settlement Scheme – less than a month left to apply! The deadline for applications under the EU settlement scheme is approaching fast. There is less than a month left before the 30 June deadline.&n...