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Fire & Forget – dismissal without tears – Employers can fret about dismissing an employee. However, you can terminate employment legally whilst minimising risk. Employees...
Frustration of Contract – Ill health dismissals – if an employee is on long term sick leave can an employer simply dismiss as it would...
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Did you know that only approximately 12% of people remember a charity in their Will according to research by Foresters. The most popular being Cancer...
Currently married couples and civil partners can make agreements pre or post marriage or civil partnership but they may not be upheld by a court...
Open the floodgates – employment issues arising from the recent floods & severe weather – Normally absence in severe weather conditions is considered to be...
Jobcentre Plus v Jamil – Reasonable Adjustments and Time Limits – a claim needs to be brought within 3 months minus one day of the...
Discrimination Questionnaires to be abolished on 06/04/14. The discrimination questionnaire procedure provided a useful weapon for a claimant prior to issue of a claim in...
Custom & Practice – Redundancy payments – the custom and practice of an employer can insert unwritten implied terms into a contract of employment. In...
ACAS Early Conciliation – from 6th April 2014 anyone wishing to take employment tribunal action must first contact the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)...
Mothers who had children by surrogacy not protected by European Union law – in the case of CD v. ST the European Court of Justice...
Did you see the recent story in The Times about Twitter ? A controversial new study has revealed that active twitter users are more...