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Rosanna Proctor
...employment associate who advises on a variety of contentious and non-contentious UK employment law matters for both organisations and individuals. She has significant experience in conducting litigati...
Higher Fees for Certain Employment Tribunal Claims
...Employment Tribunal Claims Certain employment tribunal claims which are currently Type A claims are to be reclassified as Type B claims, meaning that they will attract a higher fee. The changes, which...
Small Employers Obliged to Start Offering Staff Pensions from 1 June 2015
Small Employers Obliged to Start Offering Staff Pensions from 1 June 2015 Small employers will have to start offering their staff pensions from 1 June 2015 under auto-enrolment. Employers with fewer t...
Equality Act 2010: No Protection Against Post-employment Victimisation
...employment Victimisation An employment tribunal has held that post-employment victimisation is not unlawful under the Equality Act. In Jessemey v Rowstock Ltd and another Mr J was dismissed by his em...
Brexit: update for UK employers on the status of EU/EFTA nationals
Brexit: update for UK employers on the status of EU/EFTA nationals Brexit will affect the rights of nationals of EU and EFTA member states to live and work in the UK. Our Business Immigration team has...
Call for Evidence on Tips, Gratuities, Cover and Service Charges
...employment contract.The employer may choose to pass on a proportion to a worker and may also choose to deduct a proportion (for example, as an administration or handling fee). These arrangements shoul...
Health and Safety and the Self-employed Person
...employment is higher than at any point over the past 40 years There has been a rise in total employment since 2008 predominantly among the self-employed The rise is predominately down to fewer people ...
Paying Pro-rated Holiday Pay to Zero-Hours Workers is Lawful
...employment was subsequently terminated, the claimants claimed holiday pay for annual leave not taken. The employer argued that they were not entitled to paid leave as they had not worked any hours. ...
Failure to consider furlough meant redundancy dismissal was unfair
...Employment Appeal Tribunal decision The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the employment tribunal’s decision and considered that the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic did not alter the legal tes...
New Whistleblowing Guidance Published
New Whistleblowing Guidance Published BIS has published two new sets of Whistleblowing guidance, one aimed at employers and one aimed at prescribed persons. The employer guidance Whistleblowing: Gui...
Token Sum for Holiday Pay on Termination Not Allowed
...employment. The employment contract could not therefore only provide for a token payment. Although the decision in this case is not binding as it is only at employment tribunal level, the question of...
Whistleblowing Public Interest Test Satisfied by Employee Raising Contractual Matter Affecting Group of Employees
...employment. The fact that it also affected other employees was not sufficient. There was no public interest. Decision Mr Underwood appealed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) overturned the emplo...
Employer not liable for harassment when employee shared racially offensive Facebook post
...Employment tribunal rejects harassment claim: employee not acting in the course of employment Mr Forbes brought a tribunal claim against his employer, including a claim for harassment. The employment...
Enforcing Gender Pay Gap Reporting Obligations
Enforcing Gender Pay Gap Reporting Obligations The Equality and Human Right Commission (EHRC) is consulting on its plans for pursuing employers who do not comply with their gender pay gap reporting ob...
Buy-Outs of Variable Remuneration: PRA Consultation
Buy-Outs of Variable Remuneration: PRA Consultation The PRA has issued a consultation on its proposed new rule to address the issue of buy-outs of variable remuneration. The new rule will apply to al...
Apprenticeships Levy Consultation
Apprenticeships Levy Consultation The Government is consulting on its proposal to introduce an apprenticeship levy on larger employers. The levy is intended to help fund 3 million new, high quality a...
Important update on right to work checks requirements for UK Employers
...employment". 3. Additional duties for employers providing supplementary employment. Workers under certain visa categories (including Skilled Workers, Senior or Specialist Workers and those sponsored ...
Law Commission Consults on Employment Law Hearing Structures
...employment tribunal claims be extended to six months and/or should employment tribunals have greater discretion to extend time limits? Breach of contract claims Currently an employment tribunal can ...
Beth Cooke
...employment documentation such as employment contracts, director’s service agreements, consultancy agreements and staff handbooks. In relation to both employers and employees, she has dealt with empl...
Informing Staff About Pensions Auto-enrolment: Template Letters
Informing Staff About Pensions Auto-enrolment: Template Letters The Pensions Regulator has published template letters to help employers inform their staff about automatic enrolment into workplace pens...