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Employment reform over the next five years
Following the Conservative Party’s victory in the General Election it is perhaps too early to get any real indication of the Party’s inte...
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City Banker wrongly dubbed ‘Crazy Miss Cokehead’ wins £3.2 million ...
A City Banker has won a multi-million pound pay out in her sex discrimination and sexual harassment claims. Miss Lokhova claimed that he...
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Employment Tribunal rewrites the law so that workers can be paid co...
Lock v British Gas is the latest, but will not be the last, in a series of cases on holiday payments. We already know that workers’ holid...
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Employment Key Facts Leaflet 2015/16
Year-on-year employment law is one of the most frequently changing areas of law and, with the General Election on 7 May, 2015/2016 promis...
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Senior President’s Report on the Tribunals
The Senior President of Tribunals, Mr Justice Langstaff’s, Annual Report was published at the end of February (1) . The report identifies...
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Employment law… coming up in 2015
This year’s general election may, once again, change the employment law landscape significantly. We will not, of course, know the result...
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Shared Parental Leave – who will be holding the baby?
Shared Parental Leave (SPL) is a new family friendly scheme enabling working parents to share the care of their child. Parents whose baby...
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Shared Parental Leave: Acas non statutory guidance published
The long awaited Acas guidance ‘Shared Parental Leave: a good practice guide for employers and employees’ Shared Parental Leave: a good ...
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Other new laws in force from 1 October 2014
The following key employment law changes will also be in force from today: 1. Husbands, partners and civil partners of a pregnant woman a...
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Acas Early Conciliation Scheme – Latest Statistics
In April we alerted you to the new ACAS pre-claim conciliation scheme, which had a voluntary transitional period from 6 April 2014 and be...
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ACAS publishes guidance on dress code
On Friday the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) published guidance for employers on dress codes and appearance in the...
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Obligations to inform and consult employee representatives when buy...
CODE: GREEN From Thursday 31 July, micro businesses with fewer than 10 employees are no longer obliged to inform or consult elected emplo...
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Health and Work Service – new Government funded assessments for em...
CODE: GREEN (phased) The Government has announced that its Health and Work Service (HWS), aimed at managing and reducing sickness absence...
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Important holiday pay claim settles out of court
Code: Green In our Summer Employment Newsletter we ran an article about the widely anticipated case of Neal v Freightliner, which was due...
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Employment tribunal fees update
Code: Amber The Ministry of Justice is finalising details of a review into the impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced ...
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Right to flexible working extended to all employees today
Code: Green The right to request flexible working is extended to all eligible employees today as part of the changes being introduced by ...