Search
Showing 402 results for Contracts
Employers and additional bank holidays
Employers and additional bank holidays After the Easter break and the Royal Wedding most people took a deep breath and returned to work on 3 May. For some though, the extended holidays gave rise to ...
The Apprentice - Episode Nine – Lawyer’s summary
The Apprentice - Episode Nine – Lawyer’s summary Selling property is not that easy! The Apprentice - Series 11, Episode 9 - 3 December The latest instalment of Chloe Harrold's column for The HR Dire...
Paying Pro-rated Holiday Pay to Zero-Hours Workers is Lawful
Paying Pro-rated Holiday Pay to Zero-Hours Workers is Lawful The ECJ has ruled that an employer was entitled to calculate holiday pay for workers employed on zero-hours contracts on a pro rata basis b...
Claims for Arrears of Underpaid Holiday Pay Limited to Two Years
...contracts, so as to preclude claims for breach of contract which could potentially go back six years. The changes will apply to claims made to the employment tribunal on or after 1 July 2015. For c...
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...
If your holiday year doesn’t run from January to December – Read this!
...contracts it would be worth considering whether you want to include wording in the holiday clause so that holiday entitlement can be adjusted each year if necessary to allow for this scenario. This m...
Elena Perri
...contracts. Experience and qualificationsQualified in 2018Experience and specialism in Corporate Law since 2016
Employee Breached Implied Duty of Fidelity by Organising Team Move
...contracts can still gain protection against competition from employees during employment through the duty of fidelity. That duty is implied into all employment contracts. However, it is important to...
New Criminal Offence: Failing to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion and the Preventative Measures Employers are Liable to Make
...contracts prohibiting employees from engaging in the facilitation of tax evasion and requiring compliance with their policy on its prevention. If you are considering including such a provision in you...
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...
Working ‘When Required’ - as published in the Law Society Gazette
...contracts even raise a core conundrum of whether the worst of such contracts can amount to an employment relationship at all, given that obligations to provide and perform work are thought implicit wi...
New Tax-free Childcare Scheme Delayed until 2017
New Tax-free Childcare Scheme Delayed until 2017 The Government's new tax-free childcare scheme which was due to launch in the Autumn has been delayed. It will not now be launched until early 2017. ...
Absence Triggers in Staff Handbook Incorporated into Employees’ Contracts
Absence Triggers in Staff Handbook Incorporated into Employees’ Contracts An employer had not been entitled to change the absence triggers in an absence management policy. The provisions were contrac...
Thank you for your consideration - as published in Tolleys Employment Law Newsletter
...contracts);it was made clear to him that it was conditional upon him signing the contract. In fact it was not referred to in the contract (which referred to the old salary) and it took effect in J...
Al Harvey
...contracts, workplace policies, staff handbooks, consultancy agreements and directors’ service contracts Business immigration: recent work includes Tier 2 (ICT) and (General) applications for l...
12 Month Non-Solicitation Covenant Upheld
...contracts came up for renewal annually was a relevant factor in concluding that it was reasonable to stop T from soliciting Romero’s customers for twelve months.
Contractor deemed an employee of “client” and loses his right to own source code IP
Contractor deemed an employee of “client” and loses his right to own source code IP An individual who provided his services though a personal service company was an employee of the “client”. Cop...
12 Month Non-Compete Clause Enforceable
...contracts where the employer tends to have the upper hand in negotiations. C had received a substantial sum of money for the goodwill in his client base when he joined Merlin and Merlin was entitled ...
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...
Taxing compensation payments
Taxing compensation payments In Norman v Yellow Pages Sales Ltd, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that there is no implied duty on an employer to treat a termination payment in a tax efficient manner...