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Employment lawyers and the changing workforce - are we just playing catch up or are we in the vanguard of change?

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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May 20 2013

I attended a fabulous Industrial Law Society Conference at the week end. It was rightly held under the ILS' own version of Chatham House Rules so I

Growth and Infrastructure Bill passed, but at what cost?

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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April 25 2013

Quite extraordinary developments in the House of Lords last night. The Growth and Infrastructure Bill passed through the parliamentary "ping pong"

Ending the employment relationship further clarity provided, but more needs to come, and soon

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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January 17 2013

This morning, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) released a number of significant papers. These included its latest response

Nothing is to stop the employee shareholder (shares for worker rights) proposals coming into force next year, least of all a lack of support for their rationale

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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December 5 2012

In the space of a 3-week consultation period the new category of employer owner has become a new style “employee shareholder”, but for many the proposal remains half baked

Nothing is to stop the employee shareholder proposals ...

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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December 5 2012

coming into force next year, least of all a lack of support for their rationale

The government's latest employment proposals

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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September 14 2012

What is interesting about the Government’s announcements today is that BIS does not appear to have changed course since the introduction of Michael Fallon into the Ministerial Team mix

Employment ministers all change?

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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September 5 2012

From an employment perspective it is difficult to read the extent to which the Government reshuffle will mark a change in direction for the employment team at BIS (the former DTI

Employment tribunals - new rules, new times

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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July 19 2012

A little later than planned, and not quite the “root and branch” reform that we were initially promised, Mr Justice Underhill’s proposals (released last week) for a brand new rule book for Employment Tribunals, is nonetheless very much to be welcomed

Can you have a second bite at the disciplinary cherry?

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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June 19 2012

From time to time this is a conundrum for employers

Supreme Court rules on compulsory retirement age

Kingsley Napley
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United Kingdom
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April 25 2012

The Supreme Court has today handed down its long awaited decision in Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes relating to whether employees can be compulsorily retired at a given age