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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
Joanne Moseley
Top five employment cases that will affect the education sector over 2018/19 academic year
We’ve picked out key cases that could have a big impact on employment law and HR policies and practices over the next 12 months. Age...
28/09/18
Nicola Gooch
Why build more when you can build less: Wirral Council first to reduce housing sites following release of updated ONS household projections
Last week the Office of National Statistics released an updated version of its household projection figures, which estimate the number of...
26/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
Record £15.6m underpayment of minimum wage
In the last year 200,000 workers were paid less than the minimum wage. This is the highest figure since the law was changed in 1999 to...
24/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Is your intern really volunteering?
A minor twitter storm erupted yesterday when Legal Cheek* wrote about a law firm who had placed an ad for a three month intern. The...
21/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
Employer first to launch 6 months' fully paid parental leave for all employees
Aviva has certainly raised the standard of family friendly treatment of its staff by introducing for all new mothers and fathers a period...
20/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
Treasury committee calls for regulation of ICOs
The most likely 'quick fix' to this recommendation will be the addition of new classes of investment to the Regulated Activities Order....
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Joanne Moseley
Employee who wrote “Please accept one month’s notice” did not resign
If you received a letter from an employee written in this way - would you think they had resigned? The employer did in Levy v East Kent...
19/09/18
Nicola Gooch
The Devil is in the Detail: New National Planning Guidance for Build to Rent Schemes envisages very detailed s.106 Agreements.
Last week, MHCLG updated its National Planning Policy Guidance with remarkably little fanfare.* The revised guidance covers a large...
18/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Report into #metoo shows gender discrimination widespread at work
A major new report from Young Women’s Trust has found that, despite the #MeToo movement and reforms including gender pay gap reporting,...
14/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Toolkit published to help organisations bridge the gender pay gap
The Government backed - Women's Business Council's Men as Change Agents group - has published a toolkit of practical advice aimed at...
14/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Employment claims rise at highest rate for five years
New figures published by the Ministry of Justice show that in the period from April to June 2018, the number of single claims received by...
13/09/18
Joanne Moseley
CBI publishes guide to help employers tackle mental stress
The Confederation of British Industry has published guidance for employers on how to tackle health and wellbeing after finding that the...
13/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Apprentice winner claims 85% of interviewers admit to asking "off limits" questions
According to research undertaken by Ricky Martin's* recruitment firm, HRS, over three-quarters (77%) of interviewers surveyed said they...
13/09/18
Nicola Gooch
Will good things come to those who wait? MHCLG needs 'a bit of time to chew on' its response to the consultation on CIL Reform
Last week, the Planning Minister, Kit Malthouse, appeared before the Communities and Local Government Committee (CLG) Committee to give...
12/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
A glass half full for the boutique drinks market
The continued rise of boutique drinks producers shows no signs of slowing down with the news that The Lakes Distillery are exploring the...
11/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
The sums add up for the private education sector
The acquisition of Cognita by Jacobs Holdings for £2bn, including debt, reflects the continued interest in private education for...
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Joanne Moseley
Can you only hold a disciplinary hearing during an employee's normal working hours?
No, but in most cases, it is sensible to do so. There is no rule that says you are limited to holding disciplinary or grievance hearings...
05/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Doctor convicted of gross negligence manslaughter wins right to practice again
Last month, Dr Bawa-Garba, the junior doctor convicted of gross negligence manslaughter won the right to continue to practice medicine....
05/09/18
Nicola Gooch
Only six weeks old and the Revised NPPF is already in the Administrative Court
Whilst I may have suggested* that it would not be long before we saw our first judicial review challenge centred on the Revised NPPF; ...
05/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Will workers rights be diluted in a "no deal" Brexit?
The Government has recently published guidance on "Workplace rights if there’s no Brexit deal" which sets out to reassure workers that...
05/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
The cost(a) of the changing high street?
On the same day that Homebase faces a critical vote on its future, Whitbread have announced the sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola for...
31/08/18
Nicola Gooch
It's the Summer of Para 64 - the Revised NPPF, Affordable Housing & CIL ... or... why shared ownership is your new best friend (at least for the moment)
Nothing is ever simple when it comes to the interplay between national planning policy, local planning policies and the actual law. The...
24/08/18