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Round-up of employment law developments in AugustSeptember 2011

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 10 2011

On 1 October 2011 UK regulations implementing the EU Directive on temporary agency workers came into force

New rights for agency workers

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 14 2011

The landscape for agency workers is about to change

Round-up of employment law developments in June 2011

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 4 2011

Collective redundancy: employees cannot bring representative claims for protective awards

Religious discrimination: refusal of time off for prayers may sometimes be justified

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 7 2011

Employers are not required to accommodate religious worship during working hours if it could significantly damage their business and reasonable alternatives are available to the employee

Compensation: career-long loss and apportionment of discrimination damages

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 7 2011

In most cases, future loss of earnings should only be awarded until an employee is likely to obtain an equivalent job; career-long compensation will only be appropriate where there is no real prospect of the employee ever securing an equivalent job

Wages: no obligation to pay wages to employee remanded in custody

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 7 2011

An employee who is unable to work due to being remanded in custody pending a criminal trial is not "unavoidably" prevented from working and so cannot claim that the employer is under an implied duty to pay wages (assuming there is no contrary express term

Government plans for employment law changes

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 7 2011

BIS is consulting until 8 August 2011 on the following proposals

Appeals against dismissal: employer delay may lead to extension of tribunal claim deadline

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 7 2011

Some employers may be tempted to delay an internal appeal against dismissal until the deadline for a tribunal unfair dismissal claim has expired, in the hope that this may prevent the employee litigating

New European Works Council rules

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • June 7 2011

Amendments to regulations on European Works Councils came into force on 5 June 2011, giving effect to the recast EU Directive

New resources

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 7 2011

Revised CIPDTUC guide on Managing Age reflecting the removal of the default retirement age and other changes

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