The European Commission has proposed a Directive to increase women’s representation in non-executive board-member positions to 40 per cent in publicly listed companies, with the exception of small and medium enterprises. Member States would be exempted from the proposed means to achieve this if they put in place measures to improve women’s representation on company[…]
European Commission proposes Directive to increase women’s representation on boards
LATEST NEWS Nov 15, 2012
Government to introduce flexible parental leave and the right to request flexible working for all
LATEST NEWS Nov 13, 2012
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has announced that, from 2015, the UK will have a new system of flexible parental leave. The Government will also legislate to extend the right to request flexible working to all employees from 2014. The remaining element of the delayed response to the ‘Modern Workplaces’ consultation, on reforming the[…]
Paid annual leave may be calculated on pro rata basis for zero-hours contracts
LATEST NEWS Nov 12, 2012
In Heimann and anor v Kaiser GmbH the ECJ has held that calculating the paid annual leave of workers on short-time working on a pro rata temporis basis did not breach EU law. ECJ case law requiring the accrual of paid annual leave in full while on sick leave was of a fundamentally different character[…]