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LinkedIn contacts. Whose property are they anyway?
...employment terminates. The employee will be able to inform all of their LinkedIn contacts (both those who existed pre-employment and those who were added during their employment) of the fact that they...
What if an employee turns out to be a hooligan? - as published in HR magazine
...employment upon payment of a severance indemnity. However, in exceptional circumstances, in some countries - such as Spain, Italy, Germany and France –serious private misconduct can justify dismissal ...
The Immigration Minister Resigns (and the Importance of Keeping Accurate Records and Sense Checking Right To Work Documentation)
...employment and a further check at least once every 12 months for those migrants with temporary permission to work in the UK. These checks should be diarised and recorded correctly with copies kept. Im...
When is a Request to be Accompanied at a Disciplinary Meeting Unreasonable? - as published in Personnel Today
...employment lawyers accept that a worker has the right and that a meeting can be delayed for up to five days if the representative is not available. Can it be as simple as that? Not entirely, as Jerem...
Criminal offences outside work: what can employers do? - as published in HR Magazine
...employment contract requires them to disclose such matters. Even then employees have no obligation to disclose spent convictions unless they work in certain professions or regulated occupations (such ...
Victimisation and Discrimination — Important Lessons for Employers
...employment. Shortly after, Commerzbank dismissed B due to a breakdown of trust, because she had withheld material information. B lodged claims against Commerzbank in the employment tribunal. Her claim...
The shift towards 'gender neutral' parenting - HR MAGAZINE
...employment (the same restriction did not apply to mothers). The ECJ held that the additional restriction on fathers was discriminatory. While European law allows women to be afforded special treatme...
Using Secret Recordings of Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings – What’s the Legal Position?
...employment tribunal ruled the recordings were admissible in evidence and the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) agreed. This case was different from Chairman and Governing Body of Amwell View School v...
Taxation of Termination Payments - Is it time to replace the £30k tax exemption, as the OTS suggests?
...employment contract. Simplicity and certainty are the advantages put forward, making it easier for employers to administer and for employees to know the value of what they are receiving. There shoul...
Please remember that your pay could go down as well as up ...
...employment, but save their colleagues’ jobs. Pay cuts are by no means an easy option and can be, in practice, more complicated than a redundancy exercise. In the absence of an express contractual righ...
Brexit Bites - Part 2: Dealing with harassment in the workplace post-referendum
Brexit Bites - Part 2: Dealing with harassment in the workplace post-referendum As we are well aware, until Article 50 has been triggered and the process of negotiation and formal exit has been comple...
You’re Fired! Five top tips on getting it right
...employment and as ever, there is no substitute for the assistance of an experienced employment lawyer.
The Christmas nightmare: A manager’s guide - as published in HR Magazine
...Employment 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 dea...
Prank Beheading video results in dismissal, but is it fair?
...Employment Tribunal must decide whether, in that particular case, it was “within the band of reasonable responses” for the employer to dismiss. In other words, would another reasonable employer, give...
LLP Members Qualify for Worker Rights: Implications for LLPs and their Members
...Employment Rights Act 1996 (“ERA”) as an individual who has entered into or works under: (a) a contract of employment; or(b) any other contract …….. whereby the individual undertakes to do or ...
Students, Work Experience and The National Minimum Wage
Students, Work Experience and The National Minimum Wage Compliance? Think boilers not boilerplate Schools are spending more and more time on the administration that results from apparently endless go...
Y is there a problem? - as published in New Law Journal
...employment laws. Employment regulations and the prospect of penalties for breach appear to be effective in preventing discrimination in micro-businesses, where they have failed elsewhere. In addition,...
The Apprentice - Episode Ten – Lawyer’s Summary
...employment situation I think Gary and Charleine would have been on my hit list – putting their employer at risk of criminal prosecution and creating a whistleblower. Ultimately it was Brett Butler-Smy...
Improvement and Prohibition Notices: What’s the Difference?
...employment tribunal in this period. The notice should not direct a duty holder to go beyond what is legally required of them. If an appeal is brought against the improvement notice, the operation...
Getting girls on top: Three ways to resolve gender inequality at work
...EmploymentSolicitor.Com at http://www.employmentsolicitor.com/employers-three-ways-resolve-gender-inequality-work/