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Following two important decisions on holiday pay (Stinger and Pereda) from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) , an employment tribunal has now ruled in a case (believed to be the first case of this nature since last year’s decisions) in favour of the employee. The case – Shah v First West Yorkshire Ltd – […]
Read morePost created on: February 22nd, 2010
The Department for Work & Pensions has published “Statement of Fitness for Work, A guide for employers“. Under the new “Fit Note” scheme, there will still be an option for doctors to advise that your employee is “not fit for work” – just like the current sick note scheme. However, from 6 April, doctors will […]
Read morePost created on: February 22nd, 2010
In a judgement delivered this week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that a contractual right to change terms & conditions does not require the consent of employees where this is provided for in a staff handbook. In the case of Ms D Bateman and others v Asda Stores Ltd, the EAT ruled that […]
Read morePost created on: February 19th, 2010
A review published this week by the Cochrane Collaboration has suggested that flexible working will benefit not only family life but health too. Flexible working conditions and their effects on employee health and wellbeing included ten studies involving a total of 16,603 people which focused on various different forms of flexible working. Self-scheduling of working […]
Read morePost created on: February 19th, 2010
It would appear that JobCentre Plus offices are now doing the work of the Equality Commission (or perhaps preventing the likes of Mr Berry & Miss Keane from their serial litigation actions), and screening jobs advertised. In an article in the Telegraph today, it was reported that a hairdresser was prevented from advertising for a […]
Read morePost created on: February 18th, 2010