• January 2014

    The Welfare Benefits Uprating Order 2014 SI 2014/147 has now been published. The Order sets the rates for statutory sick pay and statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay from April 2014. The changes that come into force on 6 April 2014 are: • an increase in statutory sick pay from £86.70 to £87.55, and •[…]

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    Can an employment tribunal decide that it is within the range of reasonable responses for an employer to dismiss an employee taking into account a final written warning when an appeal against it remained outstanding, without hearing evidence regarding the imposition of the warning? Yes, holds the EAT in Rooney v Dundee City Council The[…]

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