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Individual not a worker where contract permitted unlimited substitution
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
Substitution clauses in agreements with contractors have again been looked at by the EAT, this time in the case of Premier Groundworks v Josza
2009 Budget report
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
There is to be a one-off increase from £350 to £380 in the maximum week's pay that can be taken into account for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy pay
Consultation on implementation of Agency Workers Directive
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
The Agency Workers Directive provides for equal treatment of agency workers after 12 weeks' employment
Consultation on amendments to the Pregnant Workers Directive
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
The Government is seeking views on the European Commission's proposal to amend the Pregnant Workers Directive
Amended European Works Council Directive adopted
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- European Union
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- May 15 2009
The European Commission has updated the European Works Council (EWC) Directive, with a view to improving the role of EWCs in relation to corporate restructuring and involving employees in decision-making
Opt-out to stay
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- European Union
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- May 15 2009
Ongoing negotiations between the European Parliament and member states over proposed amendments to the Working Time Directive have now collapsed without agreement being reached
NHS Agenda for Change was not discriminatory
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
An employment tribunal has, at a pre-hearing review, rejected a challenge to the introduction into the NHS of the "Agenda for Change" (AfC) pay structure and, in particular, the three pay protection arrangements that the Trusts have put in place in order to provide a cushion for employees who would otherwise have suffered a pay reduction (Hartley and others v Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust and others
Employment terminated on the date that pay was stopped
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
The Court of Appeal has held that stopping an employee's pay while he was suspended on full pay demonstrated a clear intention to terminate his employment
Swine flu time to dust off your old SARS and bird flu plans?
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
Although the World Health Organisation currently puts the level of threat posed by swine flu at level 5 (meaning that a pandemic is considered to be imminent), so far the actual threat in the UK to human life or the economy has been negligible
Disability discrimination day-to-day activities on night shifts
- Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 15 2009
The EAT has clarified that, where an activity is something that is only done at work, it can still be a "normal day-to-day activity" for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act if it is common to different types of employment (Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary v Adams
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- Author - Blair Adams