HMRC investigating 100 firms for using unpaid interns *

United Kingdom - April 30 2013
The UK Employment Relations Minister, Jo Swinson, has given HMRC a list of 100 companies accused of using unpaid interns. The list, compiled by…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Emma Vennesson, Anna Byford .

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Knowledge of disability *

United Kingdom - April 30 2013
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Patel v Lloyds Pharmacy Ltd UKEAT/0481/12 has upheld the decision of an Employment Tribunal (ET) to strike…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Emma Vennesson, Anna Byford .

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TUPE and making a business more attractive *

United Kingdom - April 30 2013
The Court of Appeal has held in Spaceright Europe Ltd v Baillavoine 2012 ICR 520 that where an administrator's reason for a dismissal is to make a…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Emma Vennesson, Anna Byford .

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The limits of dismissals for ‘some other substantial reason' *

United Kingdom - March 28 2013
The EAT has held in Handshake Ltd v Summers UKEAT/0216/12 that an employer could not rely on 'some other substantial reason' (SOSR) to justify a…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Anna Byford .

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A qualification requirement can be age discriminatory *

United Kingdom - March 28 2013
The Employment Tribunal has held in Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police ET/1803238/2007 that a requirement to hold a law degree in order…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Anna Byford .

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