The right to request time to train was included in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act which came into force for employees in large organisations (employers with more than 250 employees) from April 2010, with plans for it to be extended to all employers in April 2011. The right allows any employee with 26 […]
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Post created on: August 14th, 2010
A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research and campaign group Internocracy suggests employers are. The very legitimate arguments put forward in the report are that interns are ‘workers’ under the National Minimum Wage Act, and therefore due at least the national minimum wage (and the workers would probably be due holiday pay […]
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Post created on: August 2nd, 2010
Following the announcement in the Budget that the DRA would be phased out from April 2011, with the exception of a six month transition from the existing regulations – the latest date that an employee could be retired under the DRA would need to fall before 1 October 2011 – the Government has today published […]
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Post created on: July 29th, 2010
PC Simon Harwood, the Pc who struck Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests on 1 April 2009, will face gross misconduct disciplinary charges, the Metropolitan Police have announced. While disciplinary procedures should normally be taken promptly after an alleged incident has been identified, the Employment Appeals Tribunal – in the case of Secretary of State […]
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Post created on: July 27th, 2010
The Tribunals Service, an Executive Agency of the Ministry of Justice, published its first annual statistics recently; this included the latest employment tribunal statistics, showing a rise in claims for most jurisdictions. In real terms (claims figures can be distorted by multiple claims, particularly when these are in the thousands. The single cases measure is more […]
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Post created on: July 24th, 2010
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