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[…]
A range of employment law changes take effect in April 2013. Perhaps the most important is the reduction in the minimum consultation period where an employer proposes 100 or more redundancies at one establishment within 90 days. The minimum consultation period falls from 90 to 45 days. The scope of the collective redundancy consultation rules[…]
The government has announced further amendments to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, to stengthen the protection available to whistleblowers. The proposed amendments will:- • make employers vicariously liable for detriments by one worker towards another because they have made a protected disclosure • but introduce a ‘statutory defence’, to protect employers who take all[…]
In R (on the application of T) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester and ors the Court of Appeal has held that the statutory criminal record checking scheme (now the responsibility of the Disclosure and Barring Service) is incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Court held that while[…]
Changes to TUPE The Government has issued a consultation on proposed changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, formulated in response to the ‘call for evidence’ that concluded in 2012. One of the most significant proposed changes is to repeal the ‘service provision change’ coverage, under which contracting out, contracting in[…]
Is it within the range of reasonable responses for an employer to refuse to undertake further investigations which would support the account of an employee accused of gross misconduct? Usually not, says the EAT in Stuart v London City Airport, as a reasonable employer will normally investigate such matters unless there is a good reason[…]
In its response to its consultation on the collective redundancy rules, the Government has announced that the current 90-day minimum consultation period where employers are proposing to make 100 or more redundancies at one establishment will be reduced to 45 days. The Government believes that this will give businesses the flexibility to respond to changing[…]
The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2012 SI 2012/3007 has been published. The Order will increase the limits on certain employment tribunal awards and other amounts payable under employment legislation from 1 February 2013. The notable changes are: • the limit on the amount of a week’s pay for the purposes of calculating, among[…]
The Government has responded to its consultation on employee ownership which allows employees to give up some employment rights, such as unfair dismissal, in return for shares. The Government intends to implement the policy, despite 92 per cent of respondents viewing the plans in a negative or mixed way. Among other things, the Government response[…]
European Commission proposes Directive to increase women’s representation on boards
LATEST NEWS Nov 15, 2012
The European Commission has proposed a Directive to increase women’s representation in non-executive board-member positions to 40 per cent in publicly listed companies, with the exception of small and medium enterprises. Member States would be exempted from the proposed means to achieve this if they put in place measures to improve women’s representation on company[…]