As widely predicted, a revised version of the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 was laid before Parliament yesterday (see appendix). A copy of the draft SI is likely to be available on Legislation.gov.uk in the coming days; in the meantime, we have a copy available. As a Statutory Instrument (SI) subject […]
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Post created on: March 2nd, 2011
As confusion remains over the regulations (Edit: Burt’s view has managed once again to put these regulations into a concise & sensible blog post), Twitter’s #ukemplaw topic has been buzzing about the Default Retirement Age Regulations in recent days. Employment Law Clinic have received confirmation from BIS that revised regulations have been published today, and […]
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Post created on: March 1st, 2011
The Draft Employment Equality (Abolition of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 are in circulation at the moment, but as Mrs Markleham observes, their source is less than clear. The regular link circulating on Twitter is http://bit.ly/e1C2ZI and this redirects to a Dropbox file (but with no indication of its ownership or control): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18097599/draft%20age%20regs.doc. Edit: the draft […]
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Post created on: February 24th, 2011
Following a consultation last year, Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning Minister, John Hayes has this afternoon announced that Time to Train will not be extended to small & medium businesses – those with less than 250 employees – from April. The initiative, currently available to employees in larger businesses, works along similar lines to […]
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Post created on: February 16th, 2011
The case of Arrow & Sons v Onley established that employers could avoid an uplift to compensation claims if there is no award to be made. Relying on this case, The University of the Arts London v Rule tried (but failed) to avoid a 45% uplift on a large award by transferring the payment to […]
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Post created on: January 31st, 2011
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