The government has produced guidance on employee shareholder status, which came into force yesterday (1st September 2013). https://www.gov.uk/employee-shareholders An interesting point is that the government states: “If an employee shareholder sells their shares, their employment status does not change. A change of employment status would require a change of employment contract to alter the employment[…]
The Government has now published a number of statutory instruments that make various changes to employment law, some of which were previously only available in draft form. A revised version of the EAT rules has also been published to reflect the introduction of fees and other changes to EAT procedure. Recent statutory instruments include: •[…]
The Court of Appeal in Shumba & others v Park Cakes Ltd confirmed that enhanced redundancy payments may become contractually binding through custom and practice. The Claimants, who had been subject to a TUPE transfer, were dismissed for redundancy. They claimed that they were unfairly dismissed and that they were entitled to enhanced redundancy pay[…]
Since the Coalition Government came to power in 2010, it has undertaken an intensive programme of employment law reform as part of its Parliament-long Employment Law Review and the employment-related aspects of its ‘Red Tape Challenge’. While we have already seen significant changes, such as the increase in the qualifying period for claiming unfair dismissal,[…]
In Neal v Freightliner Ltd an employment tribunal has held that a freight worker was entitled to have overtime payments and shift premia counted towards his holiday pay. The payments were intrinsically linked to the performance of the tasks he was required to carry out under his contract of employment. Consequently, they should be taken[…]
The Government has outlined a further raft of measures as part of its Parliament-long Review of Employment Law and the Red Tape Challenge. It has begun a call for evidence on current legislation on whistleblowing and published its responses to consultations on how early conciliation will work in practice and on changes to the rules[…]
The Government has published a consultation on proposals to strengthen and simplify the current civil penalty scheme, which is aimed at preventing illegal migrant working. Since 1997 employers have had a responsibility to check that their employees have the right to work in the United Kingdom and, since 2008, this has been underpinned by a[…]
Duty to consult over collective redundancies applies irrespective of where workers are based.
LATEST NEWS Jul 03, 2013
In Usdaw v Ethel Austin Ltd (in administration) and another case the EAT has held that the words ‘at one establishment’ in S.188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 must be deleted to ensure compliance with the EU Collective Redundancies Directive (No.98/59). The duty to consult over collective redundancies is therefore[…]
Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published its latest round of quarterly tribunal statistics for January to March 2013, which also includes annual figures for the financial year 2012/13, covering the period from April 2012 to March 2013. The quarterly statistics are in addition to the employment tribunal and EAT-specific annual statistics usually[…]
25 June 2013 EAT hearings by judge alone (s. 12) No qualifying period for unfair dismissal where it relates to employee’s political opinion/affiliation (s. 13) Reducing the cap on the compensatory award (s. 15) Whistleblowing law changes – need for disclosure to be in the ‘public interest’, reducing compensation where disclosure not made in good[…]