Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published its latest round of quarterly tribunal statistics for January to March 2013, which also includes annual figures for the financial year 2012/13, covering the period from April 2012 to March 2013. The quarterly statistics are in addition to the employment tribunal and EAT-specific annual statistics usually[…]
25 June 2013 EAT hearings by judge alone (s. 12) No qualifying period for unfair dismissal where it relates to employee’s political opinion/affiliation (s. 13) Reducing the cap on the compensatory award (s. 15) Whistleblowing law changes – need for disclosure to be in the ‘public interest’, reducing compensation where disclosure not made in good[…]
In Riežniece v Zemkopības ministrija and anor the ECJ has held that the EU Framework Agreement on Parental Leave does not prevent an employer, in the context of the abolition of a post, from assessing a worker who has taken parental leave with a view to transferring that worker to an equivalent or similar post.[…]
New legislation enabling confidential pre-termination settlement agreements, contained in the new s111A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 , is expected to come into force during the summer. In broad terms, employers and employees will be allowed to enter into certain confidential discussions about termination of employment, which will be inadmissible in ordinary unfair dismissal[…]
In a letter to stakeholders issued this morning, HM Courts & Tribunal Service have announced that the date for the implementation of fees into the employment tribunals (ET) and Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) will be Monday 29th July 2013 . Subject to the necessary Parliamentary approvals, from this date, all ET claims and EAT appeals[…]
The Disclosure and Barring Service (which replaced the Criminal Records Bureau at the end of last year) is launching its new Update Service on 17th June 2013. Previously called a ‘Portable DBS/CRB check’, job applicants will pay a fee of £13 a year, in exchange for which prospective employers can carry out a free ‘update’[…]
BIS has issued a press release containing commencement dates for some of the changes introduced by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 , which received Royal Assent yesterday. On 25 June 2013 the following will come into force:- the new tribunal procedural rules (final version not yet available) changes to whistleblowing laws (introducing a[…]
Yesterday (24 April), the government introduced yet a further concession into clause 27 of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill and, last night, the House of Lords voted to accept the clause (having rejected it twice). Employee Shareholders will now become law – Royal Assent is expected today and BIS intends to implement this new, third,[…]
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has announced a new implementation timetable for the major employment law reforms, many of which had originally been intended to come into force in April 2013. Coming into force in summer 2013 : protected settlement conversations; 12 month earning cap on compensatory award; revised (Underhill) employment tribunal procedural[…]
Acas has issued a new booklet on how to handle collective redundancies following the Government’s changes to the rules on collective redundancy consultation, including a reduction in the minimum consultation period from 90 days to 45 days when 100 or more redundancy dismissals are proposed within 90 days. Among other things, the Guide sets out[…]