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Changes to right to work checks
...employment, or extend their visa from within the UK (and who have previously enrolled suitable biometrics) may also be permitted to use the ID check app to submit their applications from within the UK...
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Enforcing post-termination restrictions in unsigned contracts
...EmploymentSolicitor.com at https://www.employmentsolicitor.com/employment-contract-law-unsigned/
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Employee Suffering from Work-related Stress Not Disabled
Employee Suffering from Work-related Stress Not Disabled An employment tribunal had been entitled to find that an employee who suffered stress as a result of difficulties at work was not disabled. Sp...
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Pensions Salary Sacrifice
Pensions Salary Sacrifice Learn to make Sacrifices (and reduce your tax costs)It’s easy in 2022 to mistake newspaper headlines for debits on a bank balance. Rises in fuel costs, heating and elec...
Olympic Measures - Handling employees' leave in 2012
Olympic Measures - Handling employees' leave in 2012 By now employers will be accustomed to the various challenges which present themselves in the work place whenever any sporting event of internation...
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Redundancy Situation Identified Due To Maternity Leave: Dismissal Automatically Unfair
Redundancy Situation Identified Due To Maternity Leave: Dismissal Automatically Unfair The EAT has ruled that where a redundancy situation becomes apparent because an employee is on maternity leave a...
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No Obligation to Inform and Consult in Respect of Employees Employed in Part of Business Not Transferred
...employment tribunal upheld their claim but its decision was overturned by the EAT on appeal. The obligation to consult applies in respect of “affected employees”, defined as employees of the transfer...
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Non-solicitation Covenant Covering All Customers Upheld as Reasonable
Non-solicitation Covenant Covering All Customers Upheld as Reasonable A non-solicitation covenant prohibiting an employee from approaching anyone who was a customer at any time during his employment ...
COSHH Risk Assessments
COSHH Risk Assessments Where an employer employs five or more employees, it has an obligation to record the significant findings of its COSHH risk assessment. Regulation 6 of The Control of Substances...
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Payment to Settle Bonus Discrimination Claim Not Taxable
...employment, the payment would have been taxable under s401 Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003, under the rules relating to the taxation of termination payments. The first £30,000 of such pay...
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Using Personal Emails for Business Purposes: The Pitfalls
...employment context and outlines why private mail accounts should not be used for work activity. It also covers best practices for employers to implement, both for a business’s own interests and for da...
Employers and additional bank holidays
...employment. For example if a contract states that the employee is entitled to 20 days annual leave plus statutory, bank and public holidays the employee should have been paid time off on 29 April. ...
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No Unfair Dismissal Where Employees Re-disciplined
...employment tribunal’s decision that the dismissals were fair. The fact that an employee’s misconduct has been considered under two sets of internal disciplinary proceedings, with a lesser sanction gi...
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New legislation on holiday entitlement and pay
...employment The Government consulted on a proposal that statutory holiday entitlement should accrue during the first year of employment at the end of each pay period, rather than at the beginning of e...
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Supreme Court: Morrisons not liable for data breach of rogue employee
...employment. The fact that the employment gives the opportunity to commit the wrongful act is not sufficient to impose vicarious liability. An employer is not normally vicariously liable when the ...
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Immigration Skills Charge: New exemption from January 2023
...Employment application with the same employer, which does not extend the length of their permission, due to a change in job type Hold permission as a Student (formally Tier 4 (General) student), and a...
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Pro EU Citizen Rulings from Europe’s Top Court
...employment who lose their jobs. The case will therefore help self-employed EU citizens seeking to build up 5 years’ permanent residence (or 6 years for a British citizenship application) who may have ...
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Sick Workers Cannot Carry Over Holiday Indefinitely
...employment was terminated. Under the terms of an industry collective agreement, holiday untaken because of sickness could be carried over for 15 months. Mr Schulte claimed pay in lieu of untaken ho...
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Six Week Delay in Resigning Did Not Preclude Constructive Dismissal Claim
...employment tribunal held that the fact that C waited six weeks before resigning meant that he could not claim constructive dismissal. The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld C’s appeal. Delay in it...
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Corbyn v Smith: employment law proposals
...employment law. Both candidates for the labour leadership would abolish zero hours contracts, provide employment rights from day one, repeal the Trade Union Act 2016 and abolish employment tribunal fe...