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Employment Law Blog: November 2014

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Tuesday, 25 November 2014. The Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014 in force 1st December 2014. The final version of the Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014 are available. They technically come into force on Monday (1st December), but they only work for babies born before April 2015. Employed mothers will continue to be entitled to 52 weeks of Maternity Leave and 39 weeks of statutory maternity pay or maternity allowance. Shared Paren...

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Employment Law Blog: December 2014

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Wednesday, 17 December 2014. Judicial review of fees for employment tribunals dismissed.again! Lamentably, for impoverished claimants, Unison's judicial review application, challenging the legality of employment tribunal fees, was dismissed this morning by the High Court; the reasons will appear on BAILII today. Monday, 15 December 2014. Some injury to feelings awards deemed 'taxable'.Will this mean grossing up? Monday, 8 December 2014.

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Employment Law Blog: January 2015

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Monday, 26 January 2015. Underpaying Minimum Wage: A National Concern Guest Post. A recent report released by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has brought to light the full extent of some employer's failure to pay national minimum wage to their workers. In total 37 firms have been shown to violate the law, which has resulted in a combined fine of £51,000 and a payout of £177,000 to employees missing their wages. Of all th...

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Employment Law Blog: Companies to publish gender pay gap information

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Companies to publish gender pay gap information. The consultation closes on 6 September 2015. The regulations are expected to be made in the first half of 2016, although implementation may be delayed to give businesses time to prepare. Link to consultation document: https:/ www.gov.uk/government/consultations/closing-the-gender-pay-gap. Southampton Row Solicitors is a dynamic firm that provides London Libel solicitors.

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Employment Law Blog: October 2014

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Monday, 27 October 2014. Equal Pay case tests equal job evaluation in the private sector. Asda are being pursued by the employment lawyers Leigh Day who two years ago won a landmark £1bn supreme court ruling for lower-paid women employed by Birmingham city council. The precedent for equal pay claims for comparable jobs was set in 1997 when 1,500 Cleveland dinner ladies won a £5m payout. A national single status agreement was drawn up the s...

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Employment Law Blog: At last Government to simplify tax on settlements

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Wednesday, 29 July 2015. At last Government to simplify tax on settlements. The best bit is that the proposal as it stands (para 10) will remove the distinction between the tax and NICs treatment of contractual and non-contractual termination payments. This will hopefully remove the majority of the complexity and misunderstanding within the existing system. We shall wait and see whether there is devil in the detail. 3 August 2015 at 18:02.

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Employment Law Blog: April 2014

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Friday, 25 April 2014. A Database of 'Reasonable Adjustment' Claims. I have listed some judgments below and the types of reasonable adjustment claims which have worked before in the ET. Contact me if you know of any others. Paying for private medical treatment to enable the Claimant to return to work and cope with the difficulties she had been experiencing at work. Croft Vets v Butcher Appeal No. UKEAT/0430/12/LA UKEAT/0562/12. Modifying p...

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Employment Law Blog: Updated list of prescribed people/bodies for whistleblowing purposes

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Wednesday, 3 June 2015. Updated list of prescribed people/bodies for whistleblowing purposes. The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has updated its list of prescribed persons and bodies to whom individuals can make a protected disclosure see this download. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Updated list of prescribed people/bodies for whist. New law introduced in May under the Small Business.

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Employment Law Blog: May 2015

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Thursday, 28 May 2015. Case in point: John Yapp V Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Courts may be reluctant to conclude that psychiatric injury is a foreseeable consequence of unfair treatment of an employee, unless there is some evidence of a pre-existing medical condition. Mr Yapp was offered no other position by the FCO and never returned to work. In due course he retired. Court of Appeal decision. However, the Court of Appeal allo...

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Employment Law Blog: June 2015

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An advocate's guide to, tactics, tips and employment law updates! Wednesday, 3 June 2015. Updated list of prescribed people/bodies for whistleblowing purposes. The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has updated its list of prescribed persons and bodies to whom individuals can make a protected disclosure see this download. Monday, 1 June 2015. New law introduced in May under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. Section 149 which inserts section 49B in the ERA 1996 to provide ...