The Art of Employment Law – Workshop at the Jerwood Gallery 22 April 2016 – Book your Place Now!
Uncategorized Mar 09, 2016
The early conciliation (EC) scheme – under which anyone considering bringing an employment tribunal claim must first contact Acas to see whether the dispute can be resolved through conciliation – came into force on 6 April 2014 for a transitional month, during which parties could undertake EC if they so wished but were not obliged[…]
Changes to TUPE The Government has issued a consultation on proposed changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, formulated in response to the ‘call for evidence’ that concluded in 2012. One of the most significant proposed changes is to repeal the ‘service provision change’ coverage, under which contracting out, contracting in[…]
Disregarding length of service with different company was not age discrimination
LATEST NEWS, Uncategorized Jun 08, 2012
In a recent case Tyrolean Airways Tiroler Luftfahrt GmbH v Betriebsrat Bord the European Court of Justice has held that an employer’s refusal to take into account service with other group companies, when assessing if an employee had the length of service necessary for promotion, was not age discrimination. Requiring three years’ service in a[…]
Government to set up New Equality Advisory and Support Service
LATEST NEWS, Uncategorized Dec 14, 2011
The Government Equalities Office has announced the creation of a new Equality Advisory and Support Service to provide support to vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals facing discrimination. The service will provide telephone advice and support, encouraging problems to be resolved early and informally where possible. Those who need face-to-face help will be provided with lay independent[…]
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 Johnson-Caswell v MJB (Partnership) Ltd an employment tribunal decided that an independent financial advisor (IFA) who was purportedly self-employed was in fact an employee. In the tribunal’s view, a key element pointing to employee status was the need to comply with Financial Service Authority (FSA) requirements. The tribunal considered that the training and supervision[…]
Like the TUC we believe that the government reforms to employment law will affect those already vulnerable in the workplace: For the TUCcommentary go to: http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace/tuc-19507-f0.cfm
The Government believes that one of the possible barriers to growth in the labour market is the stock of existing employment regulations and the flow of new ones. With this in mind, it has issued a new consultation paper which sets out proposed reforms to the employment tribunal system, with the aim of reducing the[…]
In Zulhayir v JJ Food Services Ltd the EAT has held that an employee was not ‘self-dismissed’ when he failed to reply to a letter stating he would be taken to have resigned unless he contacted the employer. The employment judge had followed an approach rejected by the Court of Appeal in London Transport Executive[…]
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