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Parent and sick pay to rise

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 13 2011

Statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay are due to increase from £124.88 to £128.73 on 11 April 2011

Equal pay and positive action

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 13 2011

The Government has set out its strategy on equality

A new approach to implementing European legislation in the UK

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 13 2011

Vince Cable has announced a series of new principles that the Government will use when introducing European measures into UK law that aims to prevent UK businesses being put at a disadvantage compared to European competitors

When are adjustments unreasonable?

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2011

Many employers are familiar with the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees - but when is the cost of making the adjustments so unreasonable that the employer need not make them?

Ministers concerned at proposal to extend fully paid maternity leave

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2011

The EU Employment Council (comprised of ministers of member states) has expressed concerns about the European Parliament's proposal to extend fully paid maternity leave to 20 weeks

Increase in amount tribunals can award

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2011

Tribunal compensation limits will increase on 1 February 2011 with the maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal rising from £65,300 to £68,400 and the maximum amount of a week's pay, used to calculate statutory redundancy pay (among other things), rising from £380 to £400

Inappropriate promotion of religion

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2011

Dismissing an employee for inappropriately promoting their religion at work may not leave an employer liable for discrimination

Men cannot be victims of discrimination on the grounds of pregnancy

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2011

A man cannot claim that he has been discriminated against on the grounds of a woman's pregnancy, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled

Government urged to delay phasing out of default retirement age

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2011

The CBI has called on the government to delay abolishing the default retirement age (DRA

Bonus provisions: a cautionary tale

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2011

Failure to carefully consider the wording in an employee's bonus clause could be costly, as an employer recently found out