The CIPD reported in a survey of employers this month that more than half of companies have used compromise agreements in the past two years as a means of resolving workplace issues. The average compensation package under a compromise agreement was reported to be £10,000 while one in five reported a typical payment of £25,000[…]
Disclosure of employment information to unsuccessful job applicant not required by EU law
LATEST NEWS Apr 20, 2012
In Meister v Speech Design Carrier Systems GmbH, the European Court of Justice has held that EU law does not require an employer facing a discrimination claim from an unsuccessful job applicant to disclose information on the successful candidate. However, an employer’s refusal to grant access to such information may be taken into account when[…]
A range of employment law reforms come into force in April 2012. Perhaps the most important of the Government’s employment law reforms, the increase in the unfair dismissal qualifying period, takes effect on 6 April. Other changes in April include new rates of statutory maternity pay and sick pay and amendments to the tribunal rules[…]