Employment Laws Open for Repeal upon Brexit Parliament has briefly returned from its summer recess today, with a welcome to the despatch box from the new Brexit Minister, David Davis – the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Among the many questions that were put to the new minister were questions about how […]
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Racial Discrimination Dismissal Case with Costs >£15,000 Goes Back to Start It’s fairly well understood that an employer can dismiss within the first two years employment without being exposed to risk of having to defend an expensive unfair dismissal claim. That is, unless the dismissal can possibly be attributed to things like racial discrimination – […]
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Employment Tribunals Cannot Determine SMP Entitlement In the case of Hair Division v Macmillan, the EAT has found that “Parliament cannot have intended that HMRC’s jurisdiction [where overall responsibility for the administration of SMP has been since 2005] be other than an exclusive one.” In Hair Division, the Employment Tribunal had considered that there was […]
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Post created on: November 7th, 2012
Chancellor Proposes New Legislation for Employee Shareholders (but not with Employee Rights) In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chancellor George Osborne announced a new type of employment contract: for thirty bags of silver (or shares of £2,000 – £50,000 that will be exempt from Capital Gains Tax) employees will be able […]
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Post created on: October 8th, 2012
In an employment tribunal ruling attracting media attention [1] today, a Claimant, Devan Maistry, appears to have successfully argued that a belief in the ethos of the BBC – public service broadcasting – is a philosophical belief, and is therefore covered under equality laws that generally protect a religious faith – religious or belief discrimination. […]
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