ACAS Early Conciliation Can Happen Before the Event Under section 18A(1) Employment Tribunals Act 1996, a prospective claimant to an employment tribunal must first contact ACAS. There’s no obligation to actually engage in conciliation, but this formality needs to be satisfied before a relevant claim can be made to an employment tribunal. But can ACAS Early […]
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Post created on: September 17th, 2016
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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Post created on: September 5th, 2016
Manufacturing Employers Call for Help with Sick Leave Manufacturers’ trade organisation, EEF, published its latest annual survey this week, with findings that long term absence is increasing for more than 40% of its members, with the NHS not helping to get staff back to work. After previously concluding that the “fit note” procedure was […]
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Post created on: June 14th, 2016
National Living Wage Introduced From today, 1st April 2016, there is an extra tier to the minimum wage rates (these are normally only revised every October, based on recommedations from the Low Pay Commission): the “national living wage rate” comes into force. The hourly rates for workers are now: Apprentices in their first year, […]
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Employment Appeal Tribunal has Strict Filing Rules Failure to Comply can Lose any Appeal If going through the expense & stress of an employment tribunal isn’t bad enough, making an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) can only add to that infinitely. From the date a judgment is issued, a potential appellant has 42 […]
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Post created on: February 17th, 2016
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