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Time off for training

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 25 2008

The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills has issued a consultation paper (to close on September 10) on the proposed new right to employees to request time off to train

Tribunal claim form must relate to grievance

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 25 2008

The Court of Session agreed with the EAT in Cannop & others v The Highland Council that there must be essential correlation between an employee’s grievance and the claim form in equal pay cases

ICO good practice note on TUPE employee information

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 25 2008

The Information Commissioner’s Office has published new guidance to help employers when transferring employees under TUPE

Disability discrimination Clark v Novacold overturned

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 25 2008

The House of Lords, in London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm, has considered the meaning of s.3 of the Disability Discrimination Act, finding that liability for discrimination can only take place when the alleged discriminator knows the individual is disabled

Equalities Bill the reality!

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 25 2008

There has been much scaremongering in the press about Harriet Harman’s announcement that the proposed Equalities Bill will encourage positive discrimination

Court of Appeal judgment on unions’ liability for discrimination to their members

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 25 2008

In Allen v GMB the Court of Appeal has held that the GMB indirectly discriminated against some 4,000 of its female members by agreeing a deal to resolve past and future claims which disadvantaged them disproportionately

Consultation over the reasons for redundancies

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2008

The need to be scrupulous when consulting over collective redundancies in this case in the context of the closure of a coal mine is emphasised in UK Mining Limited v NUM

Redundancy and mobility clauses

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2008

In Home Office v Evans the Court of Appeal held that where an employer made it clear that it would not be following its own redundancy procedure and would instead be invoking the contractual mobility clause, it was entitled to choose this option

Age discrimination Heyday and Solent

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2008

The President of the Employment Tribunals has stayed all existing and future claims that are based on the contention that regulation 30 of the Age Regulations (providing for lawful retirement at or beyond 65) is unlawful and against the true intent of the European Framework Directive on equal treatment, until the ECJ has ruled on the Heyday case

Queen’s Speech

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2008

The Queen’s Speech, delivered on 6 November 2007, outlines the government’s various plans for the next parliamentary year which include proposals to help people achieve a better work-life balance and a new Employment Bill

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