“Employee Shareholders” Law Agreed After concessions that the Lords considered would result in the new employment law introducing an “employee shareholder” status more or less meaningless for all practical purposes, clause 27 of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill has tonight been agreed by the House of Lords. The clause has been subject to significant amendments [...]
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Post created on: April 24th, 2013
Lords Reject “Rights for Shares” by Increased Majority With an majority that’s grown by 15 – from 54 on 20 March, to 69 votes on 22 April 2013 – the government have once again lost a crucial vote in the House of Lords, their new status of “Employee Shareholder” (or “employment rights for shares”) defeated [...]
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Post created on: April 22nd, 2013
Government Majority of 38 Reinstates “Employee Shareholders” With very little coverage in today’s media[1] (only the BBC appearing to include a mention of the vote, and then only in its Democracy Live pages), MPs yesterday voted to reinstate clause 27 of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill – “rights for shares”, or a new status of [...]
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Post created on: April 17th, 2013
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
Fraser Preferred to Larner When Opportunity for Leave Existed On behalf of Hair Division Ltd, Employment Law Clinic successfully argued that Fraser should be preferred to Larner where the worker had the “opportunity” to take leave during the leave year, even if they had not exercised this right before going on sick leave at the end of [...]
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Post created on: November 7th, 2012
