| Title | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Employee Shareholders Contracts become law | April 29, 2013 | The Growth and Infrastructure Bill, containing provisions to introduce the much debated "employee shareholder contracts" at clause 27 has been bouncing back and forth between .. |
| Employee Shareholder Contracts - recent developments | March 21, 2013 | In yesterday's budget, George Osborne announced that "employee-shareholder" contracts will be introduced on 1st September 2013. The idea is that this "employee shareholder" status will .. |
| Loophole in Equality Act permits post-employment victimisation | March 7, 2013 | The EAT have reluctantly refused to allow an individual's post-employment victimisation claim against his previous employer due to a loophole in the Equality Act. Mr .. |
| Recent case on payment of agency workers -good news for hiring companies. | March 1, 2013 | This case is fairly complex so a background summary of the legislation and rules leading up to the case is helpful. The Agency Worker Regulations .. |
| ACAS consultation on extension of right to request flexible working | March 1, 2013 | The extension of the right to request flexible working to all employees with at least 26 weeks continuous employment is one of the proposals included .. |
| Increase in parental leave entitlement | February 28, 2013 | On 8 March 2013, when the Parental Leave (EU Directive) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/283) come into force, the total amount of parental leave that an .. |
| Court fees will be payable online from August 2013 | January 17, 2013 | The Ministry of Justice have announced that a new online payment system will be introduced in August 2013 where parties to proceedings can pay court .. |
| European Court of Human Rights on Religious discrimination | January 15, 2013 | The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today released its long awaited judgement on the controversial religious discrimination case of Eweida & Others v UK. .. |
| Redundancy is fair reason for dismissal despite issues of capability and conduct with employee | January 9, 2013 | The recent case of Fish v Glen Club is encouraging news for employers undergoing redundancy exercises with difficult employees. Where an employer has issues with .. |
| Supreme Court rules that an employee must elect to accept or reject an employer's repudiatory breach for the employment contract to be validly terminated. | January 2, 2013 | In Geys v Societe General London Branch (2012), Mr Geys (the claimant) was summarily dismissed by his employer, the bank. The two parties disagreed on .. |