Human resources Law

Lying on your CV - the pitfalls
David Woollcott, Workplace Law Group's Senior HR Advisor, talks to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about what an employer can do if they discover an employee has "flowered" their CV. | audio | 10 Jun 2008 11:51AM

Dodging Bullets
100 of the most surprising, entertaining and intricate of queries from employers in the areas of HR and employment law, health and safety, and premises management. | audio | 9 Jan 2007 12:17PM

Age discrimination – two years on
“He has the right experience, but I’m worried he’s too old. He might not fit in.”“I’d like to promote her but she’s younger than most of her team and they ... | briefing | 3 Oct 2008 2:42PM

Freedom of Information Act 2000: Implications for Employers
The Freedom of Information Act gives individuals and businesses a general right of access to information held by public authorities, whether obtained before or after the Act was passed on 30 Novemb... | briefing | 19 Jul 2004 5:37PM

Employee Assistance Programmes: worth the effort?
The issue of sickness absence has attracted a good deal of attention in recent months, with businesses increasingly recognising its effect on productivity, not to mention the personal impact on the... | briefing | 16 Dec 2008 5:38PM

Elective surgery in the spotlight
Elective surgery is becoming relatively common. Whereas once it was unusual to find someone who had opted for elective surgery, developments such as laser eye surgery, dental implant surgery as wel... | briefing | 12 Nov 2008 12:12PM

Workplace stress - more guidance from the Court of Appeal
The recent Court of Appeal decision of Dickins v. O2 (2008) provides further guidance post-Sutherland v. Hatton; Somerset County Council v. Barber for employers as to what they need to do to s... | briefing | 3 Nov 2008 1:19PM

Council loses £1m case over medical questionnaire
Cheltenham Borough Council has lost what was labelled by the judge as a “novel case”. The local authority had accused Christine Laird, its former Chief Executive, of lying on the medica... | case | 16 Jun 2009 9:56AM

Christian therapist wrongly dismissed, Tribunal rules
A Christian relationship counsellor from Bristol who was sacked after raising concerns about giving gay couples sexual advice was wrongfully dismissed, an Employment Tribunal has ruled.But Gary McF... | case | 9 Jan 2009 11:34AM

Compulsory retirement at 65 must be justified, says EAT
Partners in a business can be forced to retire at 65, or at an earlier age, but only when justification is given for the business' policy, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.A case awa... | case | 7 Jan 2009 9:58AM

Teacher branded 'troublemaker' takes employer to Tribunal
The claimant was employed by a local authority neighbourhood project network as a language teacher but spent one day a week teaching at an associated project run by the respondent. On reading a rep... | case | 6 Jan 2009 11:08AM

Can an employee retract their 'heat of the moment' resignation?
In Ali v. Birmingham City Council (2008), Mr Ali was a data entry clerk and resigned at around 2.45pm on 26 April 2007 prompted by circumstances in his personal life. He told his manager it was not... | case | 8 Dec 2008 12:14PM

Smart Holograms: A helping hand with HR and employment relations
“We were paying quite a lot of money to our company lawyers for HR advice and therefore this prompted me to report back to my CEO advising him of the savings that could be made by employing W... | consultancy case study |

Who Owns Employees’ Ideas?
[subject - Members E-bulletin 144, 11 August 2004] 11 August 2004 (c) Workplace Law Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 144 of your w... | ebulletin | 11 Aug 2004 4:59PM

Ian Huntley a School Caretaker - Are Your Employee Checks up to Scratch?
[subject - Members E-bulletin 113, 17 December 2003] 17 December 2003 (c) Workplacelaw Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 113 of you... | ebulletin | 17 Dec 2003 3:50PM

Minor Changes to Employee Benefits; Increased Allowance for Staff Parties
10 April 2003 - BUDGET 2003 SPECIAL © Workplacelaw Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net This Budget 2003 E-bulletin summarises the major implications of the Budget for workplace... | ebulletin | 10 Apr 2003 2:48PM

Are Your Ready for "Black Sunday"?
4 April 2003 © Workplacelaw Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net Welcome to issue no. 76 of your weekly members bulletin. Don't forget - our membership services team are always... | ebulletin | 4 Apr 2003 2:46PM

How Will the War Affect Day-to-Day Management?
21 March 2003 © Workplacelaw Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net Welcome to issue no. 74 of your weekly members bulletin. Don't forget - our membership services team are alway... | ebulletin | 21 Mar 2003 2:43PM

Cultivating success: how to cut costs and stimulate growth
The recession has slipped from the front pages in recent weeks to be replaced by swine flu worries and expenses rows; both of which bring their own potential problems for employers, of course. But ... | Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2009 10:54AM

2009: new beginnings
2008 was a year of surprisingly few major changes to workplace legislation. Aside from the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, Energy Performance Certificates, the extension of the S... | Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008 11:17AM

Workplace Law experts speak at USHA and AUDE Conferences
Rob Castledine, Associate Director of Health and Safety at Workplace Law will be giving a major presentation on Wednesday 8 April at the USHA Conference, Cardiff – ‘Safety, Health and... | network news | 8 Apr 2009 2:14PM

Workplace Law to deliver CIPD accredited courses in London
Workplace Law Training has been awarded approval to deliver accredited HR training courses in central London from March 2009 onwards. Workplace Law Training has run both the Certificate in Personne... | network news | 13 Oct 2008 10:08AM

Workplace Law Handbook 2008 - new edition launched
Workplace Law Network is pleased to announce the launch of the 2008 Workplace Law Handbook. With 15 new subjects, and a total of 164 fully revised and updated chapters, to reflect recent changes in... | network news | 16 Oct 2007 1:33PM

Facebook and the workplace [audio]
David Woollcott from Workplace Law spoke to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire today (22 August) to give an employers’ perspective on the use of social network site, Facebook, in the workplace. ... | network news | 22 Aug 2007 12:00AM

Workplace Law launches new CIPD professional training courses
Workplace Law Training has launched two new CIPD courses for HR and Personnel professionals. These new qualifications add to Workplace Law’s portfolio of accredited training courses and offer... | network news | 18 Jan 2007 12:00AM

Employers urged to relax dress codes during heatwave
With a heatwave warning in place this week for parts of the UK, and temperatures predicted to soar as high as 32oC, the TUC is today calling on employers to relax office dress codes and cool down t... | news | 1 Jul 2009 10:38AM

Key employment issues in a pandemic
The current expert opinion is that a swine flu pandemic will truly hit in the autumn. This will have significant implications for employers who should now start making contingency plans.  &nbs... | news | 30 Jun 2009 7:07PM

Employers continue to invest in training, despite recession
A new survey of nearly 1,000 business leaders, carried out by the Institute of Directors (IoD), reveals that despite the recession, training has been maintained or even increased in eight out of te... | news | 30 Jun 2009 1:01PM

Managers urged to take a break this summer
Despite being half way through the year, research published by the Chartered Management Institute today shows that four out of ten British managers have not yet booked any summer holiday. Of t... | news | 30 Jun 2009 11:56AM

Rise in prosecutions for hiring illegal immigrants
Businesses and recruitment agencies are being warned to undertake more rigorous checks into candidates’ backgrounds as the number of prosecutions for hiring illegal immigrants jumped over 500... | news | 30 Jun 2009 10:11AM

Occupational Health 2008: Making the business case - special report
Absence - what's the cost to your business? In June 2007 the Department for Work and Pensions announced that the UK loses 175 million working days each year to sickness-related absence, costing the... | Special report | 28 Nov 2007 1:33PM

Immigration: a guide for employers
This information sheet has been developed as a guide to employing migrant workers for UK employers. The new points based system will replace work permits. It is designed to ensure that only skilled... | White paper | 18 Sep 2008 2:42PM

Employing Someone with Learning Difficulties: the considerations
Employers often find that employing individuals with learning difficulties provides them with excellent workers who can, with a few minor adjustments, prove that they are willing and able to work t... | White paper | 19 Aug 2008 3:09PM

The Recruitment Process: from start to finish
Recruiting staff is a difficult, time consuming task, where an inappropriate recruitment choice can lead to wasted costs, dissatisfied clients and disgruntled colleagues. It is also the first point... | White paper | 13 Jun 2008 1:31PM

Changes to the Immigration System: what this means for employers
As part of its strategy on controlling immigration, the Government has introduced a Points Based System (PBS) for non – EU nationals (referred to as “migrant workers”) who wish to... | White paper | 29 May 2008 3:54PM

A Sight for Sore Eyes: VDU use and employers' eyecare obligations
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992, which were amended in 2002, place a responsibility on employers to attend to the eyecare of VDU users. While many employers find t... | White paper | 21 Sep 2007 4:03PM

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Occupational Health 2008: making the business case - special report
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