News that didn’t appear to receive significant coverage within the media this week will give parents more rights to time-off. Adopting the directive descriptively entitled “16945/09 + 5922/1/10 REV 1” without a vote, the European Council agreed on Monday (8 March) to extended workers’ rights to parental leave from three to four months for each [...]
Read morePost created on: March 10th, 2010
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 2010 State of Human Resources – an annual survey conducted jointly by law firm Speechly Bircham and King’s College London HRM Learning Board – was published this week . Indications are that 2010 will throw up challenges & opportunities for HR departments & services: staffing levels were found to generally have been reduced in [...]
Read morePost created on: February 5th, 2010