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Unfair dismissal qualifying period and tribunal fees
Jayn Bond, Head of Human Resources at Workplace Law, discusses the recent announcement that the qualification period for the right to claim unfair dismissal will be extended from to one to two year... | audio | 5 Oct 2011 2:17PM

Jayn Bond on providing references
A recent Court of Appeal decision has provided some guidance on how an employer should deal with a reference request when allegations about an ex-employee come to light after they have left. Jayn ... | audio | 29 Sep 2011 4:54PM

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

Blog post

Employ a hoodie
In recent weeks, Chris Grayling, the Government’s Employment Minister, has been promoting the concept of youths in employment. The idea behind this shift in focus is to promote local youths, ... | blog post | 3 May 2012 2:32PM

Positively unfair: workplace discrimination in South Africa
Following the end of the Apartheid Government in 1994, amid all the celebration, South Africa was faced with some tough choices. One of the biggest challenges was how to achieve a more representati... | blog post | 23 Apr 2012 3:14PM

Access all areas
How well do you protect your social media passwords? And what would you do if your employer asked you for them? Two US States – Maryland and Illinois – have recently proposed legislati... | blog post | 22 Mar 2012 3:25PM

Assessment centres: making recruitment work for you
A recent survey carried out by online recruiter, Totaljobs, paints a picture of a highly competitive jobs market with 46 applicants for every vacancy in the service sector with 2012 expected to bri... | blog post | 19 Mar 2012 3:51PM

Assessing competency
The question about competency – and evidencing it through reliance on qualifications – has been a moot point in the FM sector for years. The BIFM has committed a great deal of energy to... | blog post | 12 Mar 2012 12:09PM

Briefing

Restrictive covenants in employee contracts
Every business has a body of information that it considers to be secret, confidential, sensitive and integral to that business’ success. Information that, if disclosed to another person, part... | briefing | 12 Sep 2007 10:36AM

Fire safety: managing contractors
A contractor is any person or organisation who carries out a trade or business to provide or manage works on behalf of the organisation that hires them.  There are two types of contractors &n... | briefing | 12 Sep 2007 4:12PM

Probationary periods for new employees
It is common for contracts of employment for new employees to include provision for a probationary period. During this period, the employee’s performance and suitability for the job in questi... | briefing | 21 Sep 2007 10:22AM

Hot Work Permits: minimising the risks
It is very clear from statistics that hot works carried out by contractors represents one of the most significant fire risks to a building. All premises engaging the services of contractors are exp... | briefing | 22 Nov 2007 1:29PM

Contract variation: how to change terms and conditions
Contracts of employment are made up of a variety of terms and conditions which set out the respective obligations between the employer and employee, for example what the employee is employed to do ... | briefing | 27 Mar 2008 11:05AM

Case

Autoclenz staff ruled to be employees
The UK Supreme Court has ruled on the case of Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher, in which a number of car valeters whose contracts suggested they were self-employed claimed they were not genuinely self-emplo... | case | 28 Jul 2011 3:42PM

Employers warned about commenting on former employees
Employers are being warned about the dangers of commenting on former employees to their future or current employees, following a judgment handed down by the High Court.   Mr McKie was a lect... | case | 5 May 2011 3:51PM

Entertainment agency owner banned over withheld payments
The owner of an entertainment agency that supplied acts to venues has been banned from supplying entertainers as an employment business for seven years after his formal order of disqualification... | case | 2 Feb 2011 11:32AM

Employment agencies found to be breaching regulations
  The majority of 52 Exeter employment agencies visited by National Minimum Wage (NMW) and Employment Agency Standards (EAS) enforcement officers last week have been found in breach of emp... | case | 31 Jan 2011 10:58AM

Businesses reminded of agency worker safety responsibilities
Two Lincolnshire companies have been fined after four workers were injured in a 3.5-metre fall at a vegetable processing and packaging site. The workers were employed by Spalding-based J & ... | case | 7 Jan 2011 5:52PM

Case review

McKie v. Swindon College 2011
This case concerned a lecturer in art history who had been employed in a teaching post at Swindon College for seven years. He left in 2002 for a new job at Bath City College with an excellent refer... | case review | 11 Feb 2011 1:10PM

Jackson v Liverpool City Council
On 25 September 2007 the claimant, Mark Jackson, left his employment of some 12 years as a social worker on the youth offending team with Liverpool City Council in order to take up e... | case review | 15 Jun 2011 1:19PM

James v. Greenwich London Borough Council (2008)
Mrs James worked for an employment agency and was supplied by them to work for Greenwich Council as a temporary worker. Mrs James had no contract with the Council; however, there was an agreement ... | case review | 5 Feb 2008 12:56PM

Heyday Legal Challenge on Age Discrimination 2009
Shortly following the publishing of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations, the charities Age Concern and Help the Aged (Age UK) put in complaints about aspects of the Regulations discriminating... | case review | 25 Sep 2009 1:38PM

Keane v. Investigo and others (2009)
The Claimant, an experienced accountant aged 50, applied for a large number of jobs advertised online as suitable for newly qualified accountants, and when not offered an interview alleged age disc... | case review | 11 Nov 2009 1:50PM

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Legionella trial draws to an end
Workplace Law Group email Workplace Law Members' ebulletin no. 240 19 July 2006 © Workplace Law Network 2006 http://www.workplacelaw.net ... | ebulletin | 19 Jul 2006 12:47PM

New HSE Guidance on Work-related Road Safety
[subject - Members E-bulletin 100, 17 September 2003] 17 September 2003 (c) Workplacelaw Network Quick link - http://www.workplacelaw.net/index.php?a_id=1315 Welcome to issue no. 100 of y... | ebulletin | 17 Sep 2003 3:36PM

Three weeks until asbestos regs change
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Age old problem
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Factsheet

Contract disputes
About 90% of court cases are settled before trial. Mediation saves UK business over £1bn a year in wasted management time, damaged relationships, lost productivity and legal fees... | Factsheet | 17 Sep 2007 6:39AM

Agency and temporary workers
There are some 1.5 million temporary employees in the UK, who make up about 6.2% of the workforce. Only 25% of temporary employees positively choose temporary work over a p... | Factsheet | 10 Dec 2007 3:22PM

Migrant workers
In the 12 months to October-December 2008, employment of UK born workers fell by 278,000 to 25.6 million. In the same period, employment of non-UK born workers rose by 214,000 to 3.8 million.Anal... | Factsheet | 17 Sep 2007 2:29PM

Criminal records
| Factsheet | 17 Sep 2007 6:53AM

Contractors
| Factsheet | 17 Sep 2007 6:45AM

Magazine issue

Playing with numbers: TUPE special issue
It's been around for 24 years (nearly 100 if you're picky!), there's endless case law to guide us, and yet we still don't have a clue what we're doing when TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection... | Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2005 2:07PM

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

Network news

Countdown to the UK's biggest Compliance event for FM
There are now just seven weeks to go until the UK's biggest compliance event for facilities managers – Workplace Law's 12th Annual Facilities Management Legal Update Conference and Dinner &... | network news | 15 Feb 2011 4:54PM

New guidance on facilities management contracts launched
Workplace Law Network has now published Facilities Management Contracts 2008, following the success of our best-selling Guide to Facilities Management Contracts, first and second edi... | network news | 22 Nov 2007 4:01PM

BPF launches fully updated consultancy agreement
The BPF Consultancy Agreement, fully updated to include changes to reflect the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, is available to buy from Workplace Law today. Developed by clie... | network news | 25 Jul 2007 12:00AM

New guidance on working with contractors published
Misunderstandings over who is responsible for monitoring and protecting contractors and subcontractors – leading to the failure to carry out responsibilities – is often at the heart of ... | network news | 27 Sep 2007 11:30AM

Workplace Law FM Conference - Occupational health and absence issues
The idea of managing and investing in occupational health is one that is growing in importance for businesses. Speaking yesterday (31 January) at Workplace Law’s 8th Annual Faci... | network news | 30 Jan 2007 12:00AM

News

Young people facing barriers to work
A report published today (23 May 2012) by The Work Foundation and Private Equity Foundation reveals that the past decade has seen a major rise in young people aged 16–24 who are either unable... | news | 23 May 2012 1:36PM

CIPD campaign to boost young people's employability
Almost three in ten employers did not recruit a single young person in the last year, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) as it launches a new campaign to boost... | news | 21 May 2012 12:31PM

Part-time work bolsters employment figures
The Government has claimed that the latest jobless figures that show a rise in employment is a welcome step in the right direction, but employment experts argue it in fact underlies an employment s... | news | 16 May 2012 12:00PM

CIPD - Employers more positive on immediate jobs outlook
The immediate jobs outlook has turned positive for the first time in more than a year, driven largely by a decrease in redundancy intentions. This is the main finding of the latest Chartered Instit... | news | 14 May 2012 9:38AM

EU youth unemployment rising
Average rates of youth unemployment are still rising, according to unemployment figures released by the EU's statistical office Eurostat. Figures show that rates of youth unemployment rose to 22.6%... | news | 4 May 2012 9:12AM

News analysis

The cost of recruitment: can you put a value on hiring the right staff first time around?
A recent survey carried out by Maximus UK and the British Chambers of Commerce concluded that recruiting new employees takes too long and is too costly, with over 80% of firms agreeing that recruit... | news analysis | 6 Jan 2012 11:09AM

Common Commencement Date: April changes to employment law
A number of important changes to employment law will be taking place from April 2012, of relevance to all employers. In this News Analysis, Elizabeth Stevens from Steeles Law outlines the changes. | news analysis | 3 Apr 2012 10:45AM

Constructive dismissal – sugar coated
Lord Sugar is famous as much for his business success as he is for his ‘You’re Fired’ catchphrase on The Apprentice. However, as one of his winning contestants announces plans to... | news analysis | 5 Mar 2012 3:38PM

Common Commencement Date: 1 October 2011
1 October 2011 is a Common Commencement Date for legislation in the UK. Coming into force today: Equal treatment for agency workers Increases to National Minimum Wage End of the DRA Ban on to... | news analysis | 1 Oct 2011 11:07AM

BlackBerries: the issues for employers
It was revealed this week that US news outlet ABC News has asked its staff to sign a waiver saying they may be required to check their emails from home through their work-issued BlackBerries but wi... | news analysis | 2 Jul 2008 2:10PM

Official guidance

Taking on an employee
This tool outlines the five steps an employer must take when employing someone for the first time. It applies to most first-time employers who have already decided who they want to take on.&... | official guidance | 26 Apr 2012 3:57PM

Apprenticeships for young people: A good practice report
Apprenticeships have a key role in the Government’s strategy to develop the skills of the workforce and to promote the growth and rebalancing of the nation’s economy. Recent government ... | official guidance | 16 Apr 2012 2:04PM

Managing a healthy ageing workforce: a national business imperative
The current economic downturn is camouflaging a number of implications for the UK skills challenge which relate to emerging labour market demographic changes.  It is predicted that UK emp... | official guidance | 8 Mar 2012 12:38PM

Delivering successful automatic enrolment: The Pensions Regulator’s approach to the regulation of employers and schemes
Delivering successful automatic enrolment: The Pensions Regulator’s approach to the regulation of employers and schemes, sets out how the Pensions Regulator will support the Government’... | official guidance | 29 Feb 2012 3:15PM

Vetting and Barring Scheme
In this factsheet: Latest developments. Background to the Vetting and Barring Scheme. How does the Vetting and Barring Scheme work? Relationship between the Vetting and Barring Scheme and the... | official guidance | 1 Nov 2010 12:11PM

Policy & Procedure

Age Equality and Retirement Policy and Management Guide v2.0
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006: ban age discrimination in terms of recruitment, promotion and training; ban unjustified retirement ages of below 65; and remove the current age limit... | Policy & Procedure |

Regulation

Asylum and Immigration Act 1996
Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 makes it a criminal offence to employ someone who is not entitled to live and work in the UK. Employers and individual managers can face fines of up... | Regulation | 24 Jul 1996 3:41PM

Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) Regulations 2006
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) came into force on 6 April 2006 and repealed and replaced the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Reg... | Regulation | 17 Sep 2006 4:03PM

Agency Workers Regulations 2010
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 came into force on 1 October 2011. The Regulations are intended to give effect to the Temporary Agency Workers Directive 2008/104/EC, which was published on 5 De... | Regulation | 1 Oct 2011 2:44PM

Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002
The Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 came into force on 1 October 2002 and provide statutory protection for fixed-term employees. The Regulations stat... | Regulation | 16 Sep 2002 8:53PM

Equality Act 2010
The Equality Act 2010 came into force on 1 October 2010. It consolidates all existing anti-discrimination legislation, i.e. legislation banning discrimination (direct and indirect) on the grounds o... | Regulation | 8 Apr 2010 12:22PM

Special report

Facilities Management Legal Update 2008: special report
Essential new guidance specifically for facilities managers In-depth guidance on the key issues facing facilities managers in the next 12 monthsExclusive research and opinion from industry expertsP... | Special report | 31 Jan 2008 2:32PM

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

Working with Contractors 2008: Special Report
Some of the most high profile health and safety cases have involved contractors – the leading case of R v. Associated Octel (1996), in which an employee of a specialist cleaning contractor wa... | Special report | 28 Sep 2007 3:50PM

Video - Legal update

HR and employment law legal update - Monday 5 March 2012
This HR and employment law update, hosted by Suzanne McMinn, HR Consultant at Workplace Law, looks at: The Red Tape Challenge; unfair dismissal; Tribunal reforms; Tribunal fees; statuto... | Video - Legal update | 5 Mar 2012 12:55PM

HR legal update
This HR Legal Update, hosted by Suzanne McMinn - HR Consultant at Workplace Law - and free to all premium members, gives an update on the latest changes and proposals in employment legislation, inc... | Video - Legal update | 14 Nov 2011 8:53AM

Video - News

Weekly news 2-8 May 2012
Welcome to this week's newswhich covers a Minister claiming health and safety bureaucracy costs jobs, a fire alert at a theatre in London, EU youth unemployment rising, 40% of over 65s who would pr... | Video - News | 8 May 2012 3:17PM

Weekly news 18-25 April 2012
Welcome to this week's Workplace Law news which covers the launch of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign, a packaging company fined following an injury, survey findings which show employers relying o... | Video - News | 24 Apr 2012 4:54PM

Weekly news 11-17 April 2012
Welcome to this week's Workplace Law news covering CDM regulations, the HSE's myth busters panel, the Agency Workers Regulations, the demands of employment regulations, the risk of flooding and W... | Video - News | 18 Apr 2012 10:06AM

Weekly news 4-10 April 2012
Welcome to this week's Workplace Law news which covers a HSE consultation on whether to scrap or amend 14 pieces of health and safety legislation, warnings that the Youth Contract may lead to discr... | Video - News | 11 Apr 2012 9:40AM

Weekly news special: April Common Commencement Date
This feature-length Workplace Law TV news features contributions from Suzanne McMinn, HR Consultant, and Renier Barnard, Health and Safety Consultant, on the changes coming into effect on 6 April... | Video - News | 3 Apr 2012 2:08PM

Video - Seminar

Unfair dismissal
Do you know what is considered ‘fair’ and ‘unfair’ when dismissing employees? Do you know what the five ‘fair reasons for dismissal’ are? Do you understand the d... | Video - Seminar | 26 Apr 2012 3:26PM

Managing redundancy and restructuring
Are you looking to cut costs by restructuring your workforce or making staff redundant? Have you already made cuts, but are wondering about your legal responsibilities as an employer? Have you foll... | Video - Seminar | 20 May 2009 12:43PM

Agency Workers Regulations and recent Tribunal decisions on workplace banter
The Agency Workers Regulations came into force on 1 October 2011. Do you use Agency temps? Do they stay as long as 12 weeks? Have you considered what action you need to take?  When is joking ... | Video - Seminar | 10 Oct 2011 9:15AM

Agency Workers Regulations
Are you ready for the changes that came into force in October last year with the new Agency Workers Regulations? If not then this is the ideal seminar for you. You need to be aware of the equal t... | Video - Seminar | 25 Jan 2012 12:21PM

Immigration law update
This online seminar with immigration expert Anne Morris, DavidsonMorris Solicitors, and Jayn Bond, Head of HR at Workplace Law Group, will explain why adhering to the new immigration regulatio... | Video - Seminar | 13 Oct 2009 11:30AM

What the papers say

French reality TV contestants win employment rights
Reality television faces a bleak future in France after contestants who spent 12 days flirting with the opposite sex on a sun-drenched island won the right to be treated as salaried workers. In a g... | what the papers say | 4 Jun 2009 3:20PM

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Young people facing barriers to work
I would like to see a young person arriving to a job interview on time, enthusiastic and positive, keen to meet new people, listen and learn. I would like to see this person dressed formally and we... | comment | 24 May 2012 9:43AM

Young people facing barriers to work
How do we help the NEETS to help themselves into a job ? There are so many answers to this question that they would surely fill a book, but may I be forgiven for stating the case for thinking that... | comment | 24 May 2012 9:26AM

Two in five over 65s would prefer not to retire
I am one who is proposing not to retire. I reach the age of 65 later this month and enjoy the stimulation of work, albeit part-time. I have a good work-life balance and hope to carry on as long a... | comment | 8 May 2012 8:53AM

Two in five over 65s would prefer not to retire
Well I'm not one of them! | comment | 4 May 2012 12:16PM

Two in five over 65s would prefer not to retire
I'm only six numbers away from retirement. The thought of having to drag my body to work in my late sixties fills me with dread | comment | 4 May 2012 8:55AM

Two in five over 65s would prefer not to retire
I'm only six numbers away from retirement, the thought of having to drag my body to work when I'm in my late sixties would fill me with dread | comment | 4 May 2012 8:54AM

Employers wasting millions on failed recruitment
I'm not sure why changing the way students study maths and English will make finding a job easier ? Unless the aim is to let those who would otherwise fail to achieve the C grade or above mini... | comment | 2 May 2012 2:00PM

Employers wasting millions on failed recruitment
Going to interview it often is the case that on arrival, or before, the feelings of being there as a stooge. Just making the headcount for the process of recruitment, where the emplyer may have alr... | comment | 2 May 2012 8:50AM

Employers wasting millions on failed recruitment
Some employers advertise to check what candidates are around but with no intention to hire, others offer temporary positions to cover maternity but delay hiring as much as they can to save costs, o... | comment | 1 May 2012 9:46AM

Employers wasting millions on failed recruitment
A lot of the jobs advertised appear to be advertised cyclabley, so begging the question if the role 'required' was ever taken, failed probationary, and came back to market. Or another see... | comment | 1 May 2012 8:03AM