We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 245

Dismissal: intention to terminate must be clear

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 6 2009

Employers who decide to end an employee's employment should ensure that decision is clearly communicated to the employee

Equal pay update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 6 2009

Employers cannot get an equal pay tribunal claim thrown out simply because the employee has failed to identify his comparators in the written grievance

TUPE: unfair dismissal where new service provider in different location

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 6 2009

TUPE applied to the retendering of a contract to provide conveyancing services

Working time: EU proposals dropped

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • May 6 2009

European negotiations on proposals to amend EU working time law have collapsed

Statutory redundancy pay to increase from October 2009

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 6 2009

In his latest budget the Chancellor announced an increase to the ceiling on a week's pay used to calculate statutory redundancy payment

Contractual disciplinary procedure: employees can claim for loss caused by breach

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 5 2010

An employee can claim damages for loss caused by an employer's breach of a contractual disciplinary procedure

Coalition government: further detail on proposals

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 5 2010

The Government has confirmed that it intends to issue an extensive consultation on its commitment to extend the right to request flexible working to all employees, with a view to bringing its proposals into Parliament "later in the year"

Disciplinaries: timing, scope of investigation, relevance of prior incident

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 5 2010

Three recent decisions clarify a number of points concerning disciplinaries

Holiday during sick leave: House of Lords ruling

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 5 2009

The House of Lords' decision concerning holiday rights while off sick was covered in our special 12 June e-bulletin

Round-up of employment law developments: August 2009

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 9 2009

Direct race discrimination is unlawful, even if the employer is acting with the best of intentions