At present employees with 26 weeks continuous employment have a right to request flexible working arrangements to accommodate caring responsibilities for children aged up to 6 (18 where the child is disabled) or for adult relatives or adults who live at the same address as the employee […]
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The Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (“TICER”) amending the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 1999 (the “1999 Regulations”) in order to bring them into line with the recast 2009 European Works Council Directive (the “Directive”) in the UK, were put before Parliament on 6 April 2010. The majority of the amendments are expected to come into force on 5 June 2011 […]
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New measures crack down on unpaid tribunal awards […]
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It is almost universally agreed that the statutory dismissal and grievance procedures introduced in 2004 have failed in their stated objective of reducing the amount of claims going to employment tribunals […]
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On 8 April 2010 the Bribery Bill received Royal Assent. No date has yet been set for the new Act to come into force, however it represents a complete overhaul of corporate obligations in relation to bribery and corruption. The maximum penalty for offences under the Act is 10 years’ imprisonment or an unlimited fine […]
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It is a legal requirement for organisations to register with the Information Commissioner if they process personal data relating to living individuals. As the definition of “processing personal data” is wide enough to include holding of names on customer lists and employee payroll details, every business is “data controller”. The registration is renewable annually. […]
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The government will shortly be consulting on proposals to allow fathers to “share” some of a mother’s maternity leave entitlement.
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Employment: EAT rules “field breaks” count toward annual leave […]
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The government has announced that the review of the default retirement age (“DRA”), originally scheduled for 2011, will be brought forward to 2010. It is expected that any changes to the DRA will not be implemented until 2011. […]
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The rate of Statutory Sick Pay for qualifying periods of sickness absence commencing on or after 6 April 2009 is £79.15 per week (£15.83 per day for employees with five qualifying days per week) […]
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