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UK unfair dismissal: employers should follow ACAS Code on discipline where conduct or performance issues lead to a “SOSR” dismissal

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 14 2013

Recent case law has highlighted risks for employers dismissing an employee for a breakdown in trust and confidence, for example where the employer is

UK failure to inform and consult: maximum award not appropriate for technical breach over election of representatives, nor where urgency due to insolvency

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 14 2013

The EAT has reduced an award for failure to inform and consult on a TUPE transfer from seven weeks' pay to three weeks' pay, where the employer had

UK age discrimination: partnership mandatory retirement age of 65 lawful

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 14 2013

Readers will be aware of the Supreme Court ruling in Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes that a mandatory retirement age of 65 in a law firm partnership

UK: multi-site collective redundancies: EAT ruling extends application of consultation obligations

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 12 2013

It has been reported that the EAT has ruled that the obligation to inform and consult for collective redundancies applies whenever an employer

Round-up of employment law developments in May 2013

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 10 2013

It has been reported that the EAT has ruled that the obligation to inform and consult for collective redundancies applies whenever an employer

The importance of ‘no conviction recorded’ for work health and safety prosecutions in Queensland

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • May 16 2013

In this case, the Applicant had pleaded guilty to an offence under Queensland workplace health and safety legislation. The Industrial Magistrate

Round-up of UK employment law developments in April 2013

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 9 2013

Employers may need to distance themselves from discriminatory remarks made by shareholders who are closely connected to or wield influence over the

Employers may need to disown influential shareholders’ discriminatory remarks

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 8 2013

Employers may need to distance themselves from discriminatory remarks made by shareholders who are closely connected to or wield influence over the

Update on outsourcing

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Indonesia
  • -
  • May 8 2013

A recent regulation issued and enacted by the Minister of Manpower provides some clarification on when outsourcing activities may be implemented and

Employment tribunals draft fees order and consultation on fee remission

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 8 2013

The Government has stated that it is "working towards" implementing fees in Employment Tribunals and the EAT at the end of July 2013. A draft fees