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October 2009 employment legislation
...ion leave period must count, for example, for the purpose of accruing the service needed for an increase in annual leave. It is already the case that additional maternity leave must be taken into account for the purpose of receiving a service-related pay increment. Other pay-related areas · · Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Amendment Regulations 2008 remove the restriction that prevents agency workers with contracts of three months or less from receiving SSP. Another pay-related area affected by the new rules is tips, gratuity and service charges, which currently can...
News analysis | 28 Sep 2009
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Euromillions
...mum Wage will rise to: · £5.73forworkers aged 22 and over; · £4.77for18-21year olds; and · £3.53for16-17yearolds. 15915 18 November The Government consultation on extending the right to request flexible working to parents of children up to the age of 16 comes to an end. 16278 27 october The fixed-term Employees (prevention of Less favourable Treatment) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 come into force, meaning all agency workers will be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay in the same way as other groups of employees, whether they are indirectly or directly employed and regardless of the length of their contract. 15467 The first parts of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act w...
Magazine issue | 2 Oct 2008
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Identity charade
...having two candidates apply for a role, who are precisely matched in their suitability for the role, except that one is black and one is white? If this was the case, the employer would surely opt for the black person -- being the minority -- in order to ensure they establish an appropriate `mix' of employees in their workforce? Where candidates are less closely matched in their skills and experience, but both are feasible and, again, one is black and one is white, employers may well feel that in order to avoid discrimination claims they would be safest to opt for the person in the minority group. It's ...
Magazine issue | 3 Sep 2008
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Agency workers on short contracts to receive sick pay
The statutory sick pay scheme has historically excluded individuals who work under a contract of three months or less duration. This exclusion from qualification for statutory sick pay (SSP) was removed for fixed term employees in 2002 when employment protection was extended to that group. It was found subsequently, however, that the lifting of the exclusion for fixed term employees did not extend to agency workers. To rectify the exclusion of short term contract agency workers from SSP the government has today issued ne...
News | 4 Jul 2008
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The Diversity Dilemma
... adoption leave period must count, for example, for the purpose of accruing the service needed for an increase in annual leave. It is already the case that additional maternity leave must be taken into account for the purpose of receiving a service-related pay increment. Other pay-related areas · Fixed-termEmployees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Amendment Regulations 2008 remove the restriction that prevents agency workers with contracts of three months or less from receiving SSP. · Anotherpay-relatedarea affected by the new rules is tips, gratuity and service charges, which currently can...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Headache? Try new and improved law and regulation!
...roach the Tribunals eventually adopt to its interpretation. Clearly it means that the employer must convene at least two meetings before determining a case on the available evidence. The Code applies to disciplinary procedures and grievances. It does not apply to redundancies and the termination of fixed-term contracts, nor to dismissals for `some other substantial reason'. The process for fairly dealing with redundancy dismissals which never sat happily under the old process will return to the practice prior to the 2002 Act. The section on grievances requires: n the employee should let the employ...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2009
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No smoking? Employers face the costs of kicking the habit
...every day from exposure to smoking at work. But I'm not so short-sighted as to not be able to understand that regardless of the costs to business of allowing smoking at work -- time, days off sick, insurance premiums and cleaning/ maintenance -- the solution isn't as straightforward as just telling employees they can't smoke at work anymore. Statistics do prove a link between passive smoking in the workplace and damage to employees' health, but the risks are relatively small when compared to other workplace health hazards, such as stress! This, of course, doesn't make it OK. Regardless of personal view...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2005
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A new age?
...time spent out of the office n Greater flexibility allows you to study around your existing work commitments heaLth and safety, fM and enViROnMent uPdate 07 NEWS Second corporate manslaughter trial date set; and BIFM considers becoming a chartered body. 34 15 COMMENT Could ex-News of the World employees claim for stigma damages? asks Justin Govier. but should we be doing this at work? asks Roger Byard. 24 EAT: With the imminent abolition of the DRA, a recent and an ongoing case concerning compulsory retirement may assist employers who wish to operate a fixed retirement age. 08 CASE LAW Illegal w...
Magazine issue | 5 Sep 2011
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Cultivating success: how to cut costs and stimulate growth
...ss. Some employers simply do not have the resources to manage a timeconsuming recruitment process and need to use external consultants for advertising and initial shortlisting. In that scenario, negotiating fees is another way to save money and cut the costs of hiring staff. Cut agency workers and fixed-term employees Rebecca McGuirk, Shoosmiths At first glance, it may seem not only logical but necessary for employers to terminate agency arrangements and end the assignments of any agency workers in their organisations before terminating the employment of permanent employees. For many employers, one of ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2009
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Reality bites: managing in a recession
...nuous service and where dismissal for that reason will be automatically unfair. The most important of these are dismissals for: n membership of a trade union or for participating in trade union activities; n taking part in protected industrial action; n holding the status of a part-time worker or a fixed-term employee; n taking action on specified health and safety grounds (including leaving premises due to danger); n asserting statutory rights against the employer; n pregnancy or related reasons; n reasons connected with rights under the Working Time Regulations 1998 or National Minimum Wage Act 1998; ...
Magazine issue | 6 Nov 2008
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...delivery plan includes charging regime from April 2012; and the Waste Regulations 2011 have now taken effect in England and Wales. 9 15 COMMENT The Equality Act's `costly dual discrimination rules' have been dropped by the Government as part of a drive to cut down on red tape, but does that expose employees to harassment? asks Smair Soor. groups, but will new positive action legislation change all that? asks Laura Allner. 24 Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, is fined £385,000 to be paid over ten years. EAT: Redundancy selection: A recent case demonstrates the importance of stri...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...this issue ... Latest 05 EDITORIAL Welcome to the new-look Workplace Law Magazine. 06 LEGAL CALENDAR Key legislative dates taking place in Autumn 2009. HeaLtH aNd safety uPdate 07 NEWS Swine flu contingency plans needed; tackling driver tiredness; danger and delay in Pleural plaques decision. 28 fixed-term worker wins permanent contract. confidential information within the NHS is a massive undertaking, reports Anthony Pearlgood. 22 NetwoRk 34 fORUM fOCUS A brand new section aimed at ensuring our network member's views have a regular place in Workplace Law Magazine. 08 CASE LAW Red Bull Company Ltd ...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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How much does it cost to kill someone at work?
workplacelaw know-how to manage your workplace SEPTEMBER 2007 ISSUE 30 The workplace death toll How the amount of legislation, size of the workforce and health and safety spend affect numbers of deaths Behavioural safety Is examining why employees behave unsafely the key to strong health and safety culture? The top 20 health and safety d failures of the last 10 years Highly commended: PPA Magazine of the Year 2005 & 2006 ommended: Y ctive -- interactive business and professional ommended: r busine sine iness Highly commended: AOP Online Pu...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2007
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Has the HSE lost its bite?
...Regulations introduce: · a widening of the scope of the Regulations to cover cases where services are outsourced, insourced or assigned by a client to a new contractor (described as `service provision changes'); a new duty on the old transferor employer to supply information about the transferring employees to the new transferee employer (by providing what is described as `employee liability information'); special provisions making it easier for insolvent businesses to be transferred to new employers; provisions which clarify the ability of employers and employees to agree to vary contracts of employm...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2006
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Stress management special
workplacelaw Know-how to manage your workplace November 2004 Protective equipment Balancing health & safety with employment rights Pfizer UK Maria Hazard's enlightened approach to employee well-being Criminal records What do you really know about your employees? Commonhold New opportunities in freehold property management In every issue: employment law, health & safety, premises management Stress Has the perception of stress in the workplace become too anti-employer? management Contents 06 News The very latest in workplace legal developments and im...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
