Business Service: Employment Law
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UNISON loses court battle against Employment Tribunal Fees in Engla...
Employment tribunal fees were introduced in July 2013 and have been the subject of controversy ever since due to the huge drop in claims ...
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TUPE transferring employee was job applicant after all – but for un...
Is an employee transferring under TUPE an “applicant” for the purposes of discrimination legislation? Unlikely says the Employment Appeal...
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Tribunal fees back on the agenda
The legality and impact of employment tribunal fees are again very much on the agenda. On 11 June 2015 the Government announced the start...
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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 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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Holiday Pay Claims EAT Decision
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has finally issued its judgment on holiday pay in three combined cases including Bear Scotland Ltd v...
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Employment Tribunal Fees Update
The Ministry of Justice has released the latest statistics for employment tribunal claims for the period April-June 2014. The statistics ...
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TUPE – 1 May 2014 change to rules on Employee Liability Information...
Employers transferring whole/part of their business subject to the TUPE rules must provide prescribed information about their transferrin...
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Government promises tribunal fees to be reviewed
Jenny Willott, the Minister for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs said yesterday that the Government will be reviewing the tribun...
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Shared Parental Leave proposals published
On 29 November 2013, the Government published its response to the consultation on Shared Parental Leave. The new scheme is likely to be i...