The Government has announced its plans for the ‘most radical reform to the employment law system for decades’. The wide-ranging changes, which include reform of the tribunal system, the introduction of tribunal fees, ‘no fault’ dismissals for micro-companies, and reducing the consultation period for collective redundancies, were described by Business Secretary Vince Cable as ‘emphatically[…]
In Fraser v Southwest London St George’s Mental Health Trust the EAT has held that an employee on long-term sick leave must request annual leave in accordance with Reg 15 of the Working Time Regulations 1998 to be entitled to payment for it. Mr Justice Underhill, President of the EAT, considered this conclusion to be[…]
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has made a Freedom of Information request for information on the number of employment tribunal claims relating to the right to request flexible working – the figures are not specified in the annual statistics for employment tribunals and the EAT for 2010/11. The figures obtained by the[…]