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 were intrinsically linked to the performance of the tasks he was required to carry out under his contract of employment. Consequently, they should be taken[…]
The Government has outlined a further raft of measures as part of its Parliament-long Review of Employment Law and the Red Tape Challenge. It has begun a call for evidence on current legislation on whistleblowing and published its responses to consultations on how early conciliation will work in practice and on changes to the rules[…]
The Government has published a consultation on proposals to strengthen and simplify the current civil penalty scheme, which is aimed at preventing illegal migrant working. Since 1997 employers have had a responsibility to check that their employees have the right to work in the United Kingdom and, since 2008, this has been underpinned by a[…]
Duty to consult over collective redundancies applies irrespective of where workers are based.
LATEST NEWS Jul 03, 2013
In Usdaw v Ethel Austin Ltd (in administration) and another case the EAT has held that the words ‘at one establishment’ in S.188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 must be deleted to ensure compliance with the EU Collective Redundancies Directive (No.98/59). The duty to consult over collective redundancies is therefore[…]
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’[…]