In April the relatively straight forward process of being off sick will become more complex with the introduction of “Fit Notes.” The new Fit Notes will give doctors the option[…]
The High Court has decided in the case of Fish and Anor v Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd and Hatzistenfanis and Ors v Dresdner Kleiwort Ltd that a group of bankers were[…]
Distinction Between Ordinary (OML) and Additional Maternity Leave (AML) to be Removed August 2008
LATEST NEWS Apr 18, 2011
The draft Maternity and Parental Leave etc and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations have been published. Women whose expected week of childbirth is on or after 5 October[…]
Employees are entitled to accrue holiday pay while on sick leave and can carry that leave over into another year if they are too ill to take it.
LATEST NEWS Apr 18, 2011
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its opinion on 20 January 2009 in the conjoined cases of Stringer and Others v HMRC and Schultz-Hoff v Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund on[…]
Interesting report here of our client’s victory against his employer Mid Sussex District Council http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201846/Council-worker-spied-fired-absent–But-hed-told-work-home.html
Recent figures released from the Office for National Statistics indicate that older workers, particularly women, are suffering most in redundancies. The figures indicate that the number of people employed over[…]
We are receiving an increasing number of enquiries about compromise agreements from individuals who have been made redundant and offered such an agreement and from employers looking to use compromise[…]
Key Employment Law Changes for 2011 1. Abolition of the Default Retirement Age One of the biggest legal changes employers will have to contend with in 2011 is the abolition[…]
The changes are: • the limit on the amount of a week’s pay for the purposes of calculating, among other things, statutory redundancy payments and the basic award for unfair[…]
The Minister of State for the Department for Work and Pensions, Steve Webb, has announced the proposed rates for statutory sick pay and statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay for[…]