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More trouble for Jose Mourinho and Chelsea
More trouble for Jose Mourinho and Chelsea It has been reported that former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro has started employment tribunal proceedings against both Chelsea FC and Jose Mourinho perso...
Startups: Plan ahead to avoid costly legal disputes (part IV)
...contracts. To fail to do so could lead to employment claims, tax demands by HMRC, national minimum wage issues and the type of IP issues I set out in my previous posts. When recruiting staff you nee...
Lessons from the Recession Pt 2 – Dealing with Bonuses - HR MAGAZINE ONLINE
Lessons from the Recession Pt 2 – Dealing with Bonuses - HR MAGAZINE ONLINE The recent global financial crisis has spawned a number of interesting cases on the subject of bonus entitlement. Most of t...
The end of Downton but not necessarily the end of an era?
The end of Downton but not necessarily the end of an era? As fans of Downton are all too aware, the end of the final season is in sight. What each episode reflects is the change in the employment oppo...
LLP Members Qualify for Worker Rights: Implications for LLPs and their Members
...contracts with themselves. However, it did not need to decide this issue and therefore left open this issue and, by extension, the question of whether a partner could be a “worker” in their firm for ...
Please remember that your pay could go down as well as up ...
Please remember that your pay could go down as well as up ... In these uncertain economic times redundancies and pay freezes are constantly in the news. Increasingly, in our experience, managers are e...
Dr Carneiro Blows the Final Whistle on Chelsea
Dr Carneiro Blows the Final Whistle on Chelsea Update: Chelsea team doctor, Dr Carneiro, is believed to have resigned following her public dressing down by Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho six weeks ago. ...
Will the New Health and Work Service Cure Sickness Absence? - as published on Lexis®PSL Employment
Will the New Health and Work Service Cure Sickness Absence? - as published on Lexis®PSL Employment The government’s new Health and Work Service aims to tackle sickness absence and help employees who h...
Jingle all the way (to the Employment Tribunal)
...contracts. Alternatively, employers may wish to make it clear to employees in advance of the Christmas party that disciplinary action may be taken against anyone who fails to turn up or who turns up l...
Introducing Contracts Between Students and their University will Lead to More Litigation
...contracts to new students which set out what they can expect from their degree courses, including the amount of lecture time, assessment and feedback. Whilst contracts are already used in some instit...
Lessons from the Recession Pt 1 - HR MAGAZINE ONLINE
...contracts of employment and offering new terms and conditions on the revised terms. Perhaps the most striking feature of this recession has been a whole series of examples where employees, on a volun...
Taxation of Termination Payments - Is it time to replace the £30k tax exemption, as the OTS suggests?
Taxation of Termination Payments - Is it time to replace the £30k tax exemption, as the OTS suggests? The Office for Tax Simplification (“OTS”) has recommended that the current £30,000 tax exemption f...
Jonas Gutierrez: lessons for employers - as published in HR Magazine
Jonas Gutierrez: lessons for employers - as published in HR Magazine The outcome of the footballer's disability discrimination claim against Newcastle United holds some valuable lessons Jonas Gutierr...
Criminal offences outside work: what can employers do? - as published in HR Magazine
...contracts or refusing to allow them to tender because of the charge or conviction. In Sunderland’s case it is likely that the club dismissed Johnson to protect its standing with fans as a family club,...
LinkedIn contacts. Whose property are they anyway?
...contracts for all employees who are likely to have direct client contact. Specific care should be taken in relation to confidentiality and post-termination restrictions. This article was written by ...
What if an employee turns out to be a hooligan? - as published in HR magazine
What if an employee turns out to be a hooligan? - as published in HR magazine What to do if one or more of your workers engaged in football hooliganism recently The group stages of the 2016 UEFA Europ...
The Shifting Sands of Corporate Transactions
The Shifting Sands of Corporate Transactions The format of corporate transactions has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past 25 years. With globalisation, technological advancements, and ...
The Christmas nightmare: A manager’s guide - as published in HR Magazine
...contracts will normally state that holiday can only be taken with the company's prior consent, meaning that the employees have no right to take holiday unless Robin agrees. Robin should deal with requ...
Caveat emptor? Employers beware!
Caveat emptor? Employers beware! Most employers nowadays purport to carry out background checks on employees before taking them on, at the very least in the form of references. In the global financial...
Why whistleblowing is becoming the go-to claim - as published in economia
Why whistleblowing is becoming the go-to claim - as published in economia Employees used to have the right to claim unfair dismissal once they’d been employed for a year. The coalition government incr...