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Dismissal and Re-engagement - Government consultation
...Employment Tribunals will be required to take it into account when considering any claims brought by employees and when assessing compensation. The Employment Tribunal may adjust compensation by up to...
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...
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...
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...
Is hirer liability on the increase?
...Employment Law Journal. Click here to read the article in full.
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...
Information Technology: WhatsApp got to do, got to do with it?
...Employment Law Journal.
Employee’s length of service irrelevant for wrongful dismissal claims
...Employment tribunal rules dismissal was wrongful Mr Cameron succeeded in his wrongful dismissal claim. One of the factors the employment tribunal took into account in deciding that East Coast h...
Tribunal Claims Still Falling
Tribunal Claims Still Falling The latest employment tribunal statistics reveal a 25% drop in the number of single claims compared to the same period last year and a drop on the previous quarter. Overa...
New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment
New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment Government to extend workplace protections against harassment The Government has confirmed it will introduce a new duty requiring employers to preve...
Employment Tribunal rules unfair dismissal, after the N-word is used during anti-racism training
Employment Tribunal rules unfair dismissal, after the N-word is used during anti-racism training Doyle Clayton client, Carl Borg-Neal, has been successful with his claim at an Employment Tribunal, aga...
Cap on public sector exit payments back on the agenda
...employment contract or otherwise. This includes paying out a fixed term contract and payments to top up an employee’s pension, as well as payments in the form of shares or share options &nb...
Good Work Plan: Government consults on measures to address one-sided flexibility
...employment tribunals. The Government also seeks views on: Requiring employers to give workers reasonable notice of their working hours. It asks what reasonable notice might be, whether this should v...
Flexible furlough: an eleventh-hour reprieve
...Employment Law Journal. Click here to read Alison's article.
Announcement of New Job Support Scheme
...Employment Law specialists please click here.
Discrimination: no continuing act if alleged acts not discriminatory
...Employment Appeal Tribunal. Employment Appeal Tribunal overturns tribunal decision The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the Trust’s appeal. The tribunal had found that the only detrimen...
Right to request a predictable working pattern
...employment, which is likely to be 26 weeks. Where an agency worker is applying to a hirer, they will also need to have worked in the same role with the hirer continuously for 12 weeks. Employer dut...
Family friendly rights: an update
...employment. Employees with 26 weeks’ continuous employment may also be entitled to statutory neonatal care pay, subject to meeting the minimum earnings tests applicable to other types of family leave....
Hybrid working: working overseas – plain sailing?
Hybrid working: working overseas – plain sailing? Read the full article in Employment Law Journal For a significant proportion of the working population, the lockdown restrictions have changed the wa...
Violence at Work on the Decline
...employment experienced work-related violence including threats and physical assault. there were an estimated 583, 000 incidents of violence at work according to the 2013/14 CSEW, comprising 269, 000 a...