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The Immigration Minister Resigns (and the Importance of Keeping Accurate Records and Sense Checking Right To Work Documentation)
...employment and a further check at least once every 12 months for those migrants with temporary permission to work in the UK. These checks should be diarised and recorded correctly with copies kept. Im...
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Dismissal of Disabled Employee Lawful as No Adjustments Reasonable
...employment tribunal rejected her claims and she appealed to the EAT. The EAT dismissed her appeal. The tribunal had been entitled to conclude that there was no reasonable adjustment that could have ...
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Peter Daly - New Hire for Doyle Clayton
...employment lawyers arrives from Slater and Gordon’s London office where he specialised in all areas of employment law, with a particular expertise in whistleblowing and discrimination claims. A number...
Dealing with harassment at work
...employment. Generally, the courts take a fairly wide view of what constitutes ‘the course of employment’ – case law (Jones v Tower Boot Co) indicates that you assess it by giving it its ordinary meani...
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Holidays and Sick Workers: No Need to Ask to Carry Over Holiday
...employment tribunal, the EAT and has now been rejected a third time by the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal held that there was nothing in the Directive or EC case law which requires an employee ...
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12 Months Garden Leave Enforced by way of Injunction
...employment contract contained an express provision allowing his employer to put him on garden leave during the notice period and express non-solicitation provisions during garden leave. When he resig...
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Tribunal wrong to decide that enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay was not indirect sex discrimination
...employment tribunal who will consider the matter afresh. Facts In Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police, a male police officer claimed that the force’s practice of paying me...
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Government consults on regulating use of confidentiality provisions in employment contracts and settlement agreements
...employment, it considers it would be simplest for the confidentiality obligations and limitations to be summarised in the written statement of employment particulars. The government also believ...
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Dismissal due to problem working relationship related to business transfer
...employment tribunal agreed. Mr Windsor anticipated difficulties between Ms Kaur and Mr Chata and so did not want her employment to transfer. This meant that the transfer was the sole or principa...
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Whistleblowing: employer’s letter setting record straight was a detriment
...employment tribunal agreed that Mr Jesudason had made some protected disclosures, but ruled that the Trust’s correspondence did not amount to a detriment. It merely sought to set the record straight. ...
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Health and safety protections extended to workers
...employment tribunal if they suffer detrimental treatment at the hands of their employer in health and safety cases. Section 44 Employment Rights Act 1996 provides employees, and now workers, with the ...
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Non-compete clause unenforceable due to short notice period during probation
...employment can be terminated on short notice (including during a probationary period) (Quilter v Falconer). What happened? Mrs Falconer’s employment contract with Quilter had a nine month non-...
Will the New Health and Work Service Cure Sickness Absence? - as published on Lexis®PSL Employment
...employment lawyers and the advice they give. This article was first published on Lexis®PSL Employment on 13 February 2014. Click here for a free 24h trial of Lexis®PSL
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Unpaid interns can have rights
...employment, but there had been some discussions that she would be paid which the company later reneged on, claiming that she was not entitled to pay as an intern. The discussions between Ms Hudson an...
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Drafting Error in Non-Compete Clause Corrected by High Court
...employment contract contained a 12 month non-compete covenant precluding him from being concerned in any competing business. However, this was limited to where his involvement was in connection with ...
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Footballers’ Pay Offs Taxable as Termination Payments
...employment could be terminated early by mutual consent. Tottenham wished to reduce its wage bill and sought to transfer the players to Stoke. Eventually it agreed terms on which the players would tr...
Working Time Regulations amended to allow workers to carry over holiday not taken due to coronavirus
...employment before the two years are up, they are entitled to a payment in lieu of this carried-over leave. Employers are only able to deny workers the opportunity to take this leave in the two-y...
Coronavirus job retention scheme: HM Treasury publishes legal framework
...employment. This may be in electronic form, such as by email. This suggests that notification of furlough but no written agreement recording it may be insufficient. Employers are unlikely to be ...
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Whistleblowing: disclosures made in defence of poor performance could still be in the public interest
...Employment Appeal Tribunal rules tribunal applied public interest test incorrectly The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld her appeal. The employment tribunal had considered that she was primaril...
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Re-engagement Order Defeats Employer’s Attempt to Harmonise Terms and Conditions
...employment. Where employees refuse to agree changes, employers will often terminate employment and offer a new employment contract containing the new terms. Whilst employers have always been aware ...