Posts from October 2018
Nicola Gooch
Budget 2018: Build Out Rates, CIL and PD Rights or Consultation, Consultation, Consultation.
Yesterday afternoon, the Chancellor unveiled this year's budget, albeit with a huge Brexit shaped question mark over whether it is...
30/10/18
Joanne Moseley
EU votes to protect "gig" workers
The EU Employment Committee has approved draft legislation which will give important employment rights to casual, intermittent and...
29/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Swedish derogation contracts put under the spotlight
Legislation protecting temporary agency workers came into force in 2010. After 12 weeks in the job, an agency worker qualifies for the...
29/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Employee called a "fat ginger pikey" loses harassment case
How on earth can an employee refer to a member of staff in this way and, effectively, get away with it? The law The Equality Act 2010...
25/10/18
Joanne Moseley
New Government guidance makes it tougher to remove exam results from performance data
Schools and FE colleges that have applied for the exam results of pupils with serious illnesses, or who are home educated, to be...
24/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Huge response to Government's consultation on "trans" rights
The Government's consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act closed on Monday. We understand that 53,000 responses have been...
24/10/18
Joanne Moseley
SEN update for schools and colleges
There have been a number of important decisions regarding children with Special Educational Needs "SEN" likely to be of interest to...
24/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Morrisons vicariously liable for deliberate data breach by "rogue" employee
Yesterday the Court of Appeal confirmed that the supermarket, Morrisons will have to pay damages to thousands of employees whose data was...
23/10/18
Nicola Gooch
Budget 2018: Letwin, CIL and Land Value Capture - It's all about the money
We are only 7 days out from this year's budget, so we can expect an increasing amount of pre-announcements, spoilers and speculation as...
23/10/18
David Shirt
Irwin Mitchell hosts Brexit event in Manchester
Law firm Irwin Mitchell will host a Brexit-themed event on 20th November to help businesses prepare and plan for when the UK leaves the...
19/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
Possible exemption from leasehold ground rent ban for retirement living
Colleague David Hutber notes the following: In the wake of the much publicised ‘ground rent scandal’, the Government has published a...
19/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
Is Property a proper investment for an open ended fund?
One of the problems with investing in real estate is said to be its illiquidity. We shouldn't be surprised at that. After all, valuable...
18/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Employer liable for actions of MD that took place three hours after the end of its Christmas party
The Court of Appeal in Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd has found the company liable for the costs of providing care to one of its...
17/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
You may feed the swans...
A recent case (published by the brilliant, open access Bailii web service) provides a good chance to remind everyone that village green...
15/10/18
Joanne Moseley
"I had a moral duty": Whistleblowers on why they spoke up
The Public Duty Disclosure Act has been in force since 2 July 1999 and provides legal recourse (via Part IVA of the Employment Rights Act...
12/10/18
Joanne Moseley
£3,000 awarded to job applicant told he was "too old" to apply
According to Employee Benefits blog, an Industrial Tribunal has awarded £3,000 to a 63-year-old man who was told he was too old to apply...
10/10/18
Joanne Moseley
How is the Apprenticeship Levy going to change?
Last week, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond said that the government is going to make some changes to the controversial Apprenticeship Levy...
09/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Top employment cases that will shape 2018/19
We have identified the cases which will have a big impact on employment law and HR policies and practices over the next 12 months. These...
09/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
8,000 Tesco workers join new equal pay claim
Tesco is facing a barrage of additional equal pay claims. Under equal pay law in the UK, staff can challenge their pay rates as compared...
03/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Government pledge to end free movement "once and for all"
Theresa May has announced that EU citizens will no longer be given priority to live and work in Britain after Brexit. She said the terms...
03/10/18
Nicola Gooch
Abuse of Process: Council's enforcement prosecution "based on .... an improper motive"
It is not very often that I am genuinely taken aback by the facts of a Court of Appeal case, but R v The Knightland Foundation and Jacob...
02/10/18
Elizabeth Thomson
Retail and Brexit - it's been an eventful week
The latest figures reported in The Retail Bulletin indicate that consumer mood is dipping, due to concerns about the wider economy in the...
01/10/18