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Employee moved from France to UK by US firm claims unfair dismissal
... absence.The Appeal Tribunal held that the correct approach in determining jurisdiction is to consider what was happening at the material time rather than the contractual entitlement or what might have happened had the facts been different.Her argument that the correct question to ask was where the employee had been ordinarily working or based if she had not been absent through sickness was rejected. In February 2005 Ms Hunt was informed that she was to be transferred from United’s base at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Heathrow in London due to the expiry of her working visa in France. On 24...
Case | 18 Apr 2008
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Grinding to a halt: Why Government policy risks bringing business to a standstill
...Chancellor George Osborne announced the biggest spending cuts in decades through the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). Sarah Wray looks at what it could mean for employers. COntinuinG PROfessiOnaL deVeLOPMent 30 TRIPPING OUT Slip and trip accidents are the most common cause of serious injury to employees in the UK, says Maria Anderson and Simon Toseland. netWORK 42 FORUM FOCUS Reflecting Network members' views on the Workplace Law site during the past weeks. 44 NETWORk NEWS Fundraising money delivered; and Workplace Law turns 15. eMPLOyMent uPdate 13 NEWS UK joins seven other countries in state...
Magazine issue | 4 Jan 2011
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48: How the 48-hour working week could push employers to the max
...proposed amendments to the Working Time Directive. CLASSROOM IN LONDON 22 FOCuS 12 48: puShING WORKING TImE TO ThE mAx? The European Parliament recently voted 421 to 273 in favour of amendments tabled for the Working Time Directive. However, this vote means that the working time opt-out where employees can sign an agreement to work more than 48 hours in a week is in danger of being removed from law. So what would this mean for employers? And is this actually going to happen? this issue has rumbled on for so long and why there will be no easy answer for a long time to come. 20 ChALLENGE 22...
Magazine issue | 5 Feb 2009
