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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...
A change in the weather: TUPE and the weather presenters - as published in HR Magazine
A change in the weather: TUPE and the weather presenters - as published in HR Magazine In September it was announced that MeteoGroup will take over the Met Office contract to provide weather services ...
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No Damages for Breach of Contractual Disciplinary Procedure
No Damages for Breach of Contractual Disciplinary Procedure Employees cannot claim damages for breach of a contractual disciplinary procedure which results in their dismissal. Compensation for the unf...
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Replacing Employees with Franchisees Can be an “ETO Reason”
...contracts, the meter readers who had been working on those contracts transferred to MU. MU offered them the opportunity to set up individual companies to operate under its franchise arrangement and wh...
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TUPE: Pension guarantee enforceable against new owner 20 years later
TUPE: Pension guarantee enforceable against new owner 20 years later In Whitney v Monster Worldwide Ltd, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that an assurance given by an employer about his pension ent...
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TUPE: No Service Provision Change if Client Changes Too
TUPE: No Service Provision Change if Client Changes Too The EAT has held that there will only be a service provision change under TUPE if the services are provided to the same client before and after...
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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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TUPE: Advantageous changes to contractual terms void
TUPE: Advantageous changes to contractual terms void A transferee employer was not bound by beneficial changes the transferor made to employees’ contracts before the transfer. Outgoing contract...
Preparing for pension auto-enrolment: what small businesses need to know
Preparing for pension auto-enrolment: what small businesses need to know Small businesses will soon become subject to auto-enrolment obligations. The precise date will depend on their staging date . ...
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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...
Data for your diary
...contracts were entered into prior to 21 September 2022 there is currently a grace period to allow an alternative transfer mechanism to be identified and implemented. However that implementation window...
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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...
Coronavirus for FDs – some things you might have missed…
...contracts. A contract may contain a ‘force majeure’ clause which, essentially, removes a party’s liability for failure to perform a contract, where that failure is as a result of matters outside...
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Election Manifestos: Issues for Employers
...contracts so that those who have no guaranteed hours can also work for other employers. The Liberal Democrats will also look to stamp out abuse of zero hours contracts. They will create a formal rig...
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Olivia Geary
...contracts and workplace policies. Olivia also regularly represents employers and employees in the Employment Tribunal and High Court proceedings, with experience in whistleblowing, discriminatio...
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Employers Can Rely on Last Straw Doctrine to Dismiss with Immediate Effect
Employers Can Rely on Last Straw Doctrine to Dismiss with Immediate Effect The High Court has held that employers are entitled to rely on the last straw doctrine to dismiss an employee with immediate ...
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Deduction of One Month’s Pay for Failing to Work Notice Not a Penalty
Deduction of One Month’s Pay for Failing to Work Notice Not a Penalty A clause which entitled an employer to deduct a month’s salary if the employee failed to work their notice period was not a penalt...
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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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Confidential Information: Two wrongs don’t make a right
Confidential Information: Two wrongs don’t make a right In Brandeaux Advisers (UK) Ltd and others v Chadwick, the High Court found that Ms Chadwick was in repudiatory breach of contract when she sen...