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Good Work Plan: Government consults on measures to address one-sided flexibility
...contracts? It will introduce a right after 26 weeks’ service for workers to switch to a contract reflecting their normal working hours. It will give strong consideration to the LPC’s recommenda...
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Law Commission Consults on Employment Law Hearing Structures
Law Commission Consults on Employment Law Hearing Structures The Law Commission, the body tasked with reviewing our laws and recommending reforms, has launched a consultation on how employment law dis...
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National Insurance Contributions changes to termination payments postponed until April 2019
National Insurance Contributions changes to termination payments postponed until April 2019 The way that termination payments are taxed is due to change in April 2018 but planned changes to National I...
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Government consults on regulating use of confidentiality provisions in employment contracts and settlement agreements
Government consults on regulating use of confidentiality provisions in employment contracts and settlement agreements The government has launched a consultation on measures to prevent the misuse of co...
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Right to request a predictable working pattern
...contracts of 12 months or less are presumed to lack predictability. Agency workers will be able to apply to either the temporary work agency or the hirer for a change to their work pattern. The work...
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Are Dentists Workers?
Are Dentists Workers? Worker Status – Case Win in the Employment Appeal Tribunal In a significant post-Uber decision, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has clarified the test for determining worker...
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Redundancy consultation: the importance of consulting early
...contracts. She had been employed since 2016 on a series of one-year fixed term contracts and her current contract was nearing its end. The other nurse had been appointed on a two year fixed term contr...
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Employee’s length of service irrelevant for wrongful dismissal claims
Employee’s length of service irrelevant for wrongful dismissal claims An employee’s length of service is irrelevant when deciding if they were wrongfully dismissed. Employee dismissed for serio...
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Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Consultation Launched
Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Consultation Launched The Government is seeking views on how it should implement its commitment to require larger private and voluntary sector employers to publish gender pay...
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Bank of England Consults on Extending Bonus Clawbacks
...contracts to enable them to claw back bonuses which have already vested. The Bank of England already has powers to require firms to claw back unvested bonuses. Under the proposals, bonuses could be c...
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Employers cannot pro-rate holiday entitlement for part-year workers
...contracts who work part of the year (part-year workers). Employers commonly use 12.07% as a basis to calculate holiday pay for casual and irregular hour workers and the ACAS guidance supports this.&nb...
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Who owns the intellectual property created during employment?
...contracts and it therefore owned the copyright in the code he developed in the course of his employment. What did the court decide? The Judge agreed with MD5. Although none of the contracts be...
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What are the changes to taxing termination payments from 6th April 2018?
What are the changes to taxing termination payments from 6th April 2018? Employers will have to change the way they tax termination payments where an employee’s termination date is on or after 6 April...
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Government responds to consultation on non-compete clauses
...contracts, but not in wider workplace contracts, such as partnership and LLP agreements and shareholder agreements. The limit will not apply to other types of post-termination restrictions, such as no...
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Supreme Court severs part of non-compete clause to leave an enforceable restriction
Supreme Court severs part of non-compete clause to leave an enforceable restriction The Supreme Court has ruled in Egon Zehnder v Tillman that it could delete words from a broad and unenforceable non-...
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Labour’s 2017 Election Manifesto – For the Many, Not the Few
...contracts Labour will ban zero hours contracts. It will also introduce legislation entitling those employed on short hours contracts (under which they are a guaranteed only a small number of hours)...
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“Change Britain’s Future”: the Liberal Democrats' 2017 Manifesto
...contracts and the gig economy The LibDems will stamp out the abuse of zero hours contracts and create a right for workers to request a fixed term contract. They will also consult on introducing a ri...
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Changing Contractual Employment Terms: Dismissal and Re-engagement Code Published
...contracts and envisages that it might opt for dismissal and re-engagement if the changes are not agreed. The Code will apply regardless of the number of employees affected and regardless of the ...
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Exclusive jurisdiction clauses only work for disputes already in existence
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses only work for disputes already in existence The Court of Appeal has ruled an employer can only rely on an exclusive jurisdiction clause for issues in dispute at the time...
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Employment tribunal rules chair of regulator’s disciplinary tribunal is a worker
Employment tribunal rules chair of regulator’s disciplinary tribunal is a worker An employment tribunal has ruled that a barrister appointed as a tribunal chair for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (...