In USDAW v Ethel Austin Ltd (in administration) and another case the EAT has granted the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills permission to appeal against its decision[…]
Recent changes to the law mean that you now have to pay a fee to make a claim to an Employment Tribunal. Depending on the claim you’re making, you’ll either[…]
The Prime Minister’s ‘Business Taskforce’ of ‘six heavy-hitters from the UK business community’ has presented 30 recommendations for cutting EU ‘red tape’. The report makes recommendations in several areas, including[…]
Zero Hours Employee Entitled to more than Token Sum to Compensate for Accrued but Untaken Holiday
LATEST NEWS Oct 03, 2013
News from IDS Brief – Token sum on termination for untaken holiday was not permissible In Podlasiak v Edinburgh Woollen Mill Limited an employment tribunal has held that the ECJ’s[…]
The Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced that the Government will launch a consultation on tackling abuse of zero-hour contracts, and will ask the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to consider[…]
The government has produced guidance on employee shareholder status, which came into force yesterday (1st September 2013). https://www.gov.uk/employee-shareholders An interesting point is that the government states: “If an employee shareholder[…]
The Government has now published a number of statutory instruments that make various changes to employment law, some of which were previously only available in draft form. A revised version[…]
The Court of Appeal in Shumba & others v Park Cakes Ltd confirmed that enhanced redundancy payments may become contractually binding through custom and practice. The Claimants, who had been[…]
Since the Coalition Government came to power in 2010, it has undertaken an intensive programme of employment law reform as part of its Parliament-long Employment Law Review and the employment-related[…]
In Neal v Freightliner Ltd an employment tribunal has held that a freight worker was entitled to have overtime payments and shift premia counted towards his holiday pay. The payments[…]