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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Post created on: April 1st, 2016
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
Tribunal Wrong in Failing to Take Consideration of Events after Transfer when Determining if TUPE Applied When determining the “intention” of a party at the time of a service provision change, an employment tribunal should consider all facts available to it when deciding on intention at the time of the change, and that includes events (or lack thereof) in […]
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Post created on: November 29th, 2015
Racial Discrimination Dismissal Case with Costs >£15,000 Goes Back to Start It’s fairly well understood that an employer can dismiss within the first two years employment without being exposed to risk of having to defend an expensive unfair dismissal claim. That is, unless the dismissal can possibly be attributed to things like racial discrimination – […]
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Post created on: November 25th, 2015
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