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Sometimes we see stories or cases that immediately grab our attention. Whether we agree with them or they really annoy us, these are things we cannot ignore. Hopefully our thoughts will be of interest to you.
| There was much press excitement earlier in the week about the EU Parliament’s decision to limit bankers’ bonuses to 100% of base salary. Read more... |
| A worker at Stansted airport has handed his notice in using an unusual method Read more... |
| The following changes to the rules on collective redundancy came into force on 6 April 2013: Read more... |
| The Guardian reported last week that there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that some UK businesses are filtering out job candidates with foreign-sounding names. Read more... |
| Former apprentice winner Stella English has lost her case against self-styled belligerent boss Alan Sugar’s company, Viglen. Read more... |
| Sebastian Vettel has made the headlines again this week after suggesting that he would probably not follow team orders again, after having ignored a team order not to challenge team mate Webber in the Malaysian Grand Prix a couple of weeks ago. Read more... |
| A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case has confirmed that, when dealing with the question of whether someone is disabled for the purposes of the discrimination legislation, the following points are relevant: Read more... |
| Finally, what all employees have been waiting for… an app that warns you if you’ve tweeted something that is likely to get you fired! Read more... |
| In Handshake Ltd v Summers, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that an employer who dismissed a senior employee following a dispute over a profit share and a failure to agree on the terms of employment could not rely on “some other substantial reason” to justify the dismissal. Read more... |
| A recent case which hit the national headlines highlights the difficulties faced by employers when dealing with employees on long-term sickness absence by reason of stress. Read more... |
| In overturning the decision of an Employment Tribunal that it did not have jurisdiction to hear Mr Onyango’s whistleblowing claim, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed in Onyango v Berkeley Solicitors that a claimant can rely on a protected disclosure made after termination of his employment to bring a whistleblowing claim. Read more... |
| Q&A: The proposed cap on bankers’ bonuses Read more... |
| It has been announced today that European Union officials have struck a provisional deal on new financial rules, including capping bank bonuses. Read more... |
| In the Children and Families Bill the current statutory procedure surrounding the right to request flexible working will be repealed and replaced Read more... |
| In the case of Davies v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council the Court of Appeal has confirmed that it is legitimate for an employer to rely on a final written warning Read more... |
| A cashier at a theme park, who had been with her employer for 20 years, has been jailed for 18 months for stealing £50,000 of takings between 2004 and 2010. Read more... |
| The judgment which was yesterday handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) in the combined appeals of Ladele and McFarlane v the United Kingdom [2011] ECHR 737 and Eweida and Chaplin v the United Kingdom [2011] ECHR 738 has determined that in most cases UK legislation does sufficiently protect the rights of employees who wish to manifest their religion at work, a freedom provided under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”), but that this is not always the case. Read more... |
| Yesterday we tweeted about an interesting story from Sweden: according to the BBC and other media sources, a train cleaner stole an empty passenger train from her employer, and then crashed it into an apartment block. Read more... |
| Over the last year we have seen multiple incidents where individuals on Facebook or twitter have posted comments which have got them into hot water. Apart Read more... |
| Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, has won his appeal against the High Court’s decision that a legal fees indemnity relating to a former employee’s employment did not extend to criminal activities outside his lawful responsibilities as an employee. Read more... |
| Jobseekers in Aberdare, Wales are being given a TOWIE (The Only Way is Essex) style makeover to try to boost their job prospects. Read more... |
| The FSA yesterday published its latest remuneration reporting requirements. Read more... |
| The Women of the Year Lunch took place this week, and its host, Baroness Helena Kennedy, has coincided the lunch with an interview Read more... |
| Blog comments on proposed amendment to Enterprise Bill Read more... |
| Update on NRLB decision on social media bans in the workplace. Read more... |
| George Osborne's new "owner-employee" contracts are set to shake up the employment law landscape, but will they work in practice? Read more... |
| A recent tribunal decision considered the case of Borg Warf and Nunki Pippin, a couple of narcotic police dogs, and their human handler, WPC Keohane. Read more... |
| It has been reported that a resignation email sent by an employee to all staff at his employer, MEC Global, has gone ‘viral’ after it was posted on Twitter. Read more... |
| Q: When should a board not copy its chairwoman into an email exchange? Read more... |
| The Ministry of Justice yesterday published the annual Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal statistics for the period 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012. Read more... |
| David Pitt-Watson, a leading pension fund manager, was claiming on the airwaves this morning that we could get far more value from our pensions if we mixed the approach between the traditional defined benefit (or “final salary”) and now more common defined contribution scheme. Read more... |
| Vince Cable announced this morning that consultation will take place on reducing the cap on unfair dismissal from its current level of £72,300. Read more... |
| So the government has decided. The real problems with our economy are the fact that there are not enough women getting to the top. Read more... |
| It turns out we’re stressed. Very stressed. However, HR professionals and employment lawyers will probably be some of the few people who will not be surprised at the latest figures to come out the NHS’s Health and Social Care Information Centre Read more... |
| The latest Employment Trends Survey carried out by the CBI and Harvey Nash examines the impact of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 since they came into force in October 2011. Read more... |
| Frankie Boyle is likely to have made his last appearance on Channel 4 after making tweets about the Paralympians that some readers found offensive. Read more... |
| The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) today begins hearing four UK religious discrimination cases which could change the way faith is treated in the workplace. Read more... |
| Take a look at some of our recent blogs including: "Employ someone with a mental illness? That's not crazy"; "Burger Ming!"; and "Cracks in the glass ceiling". Read more... |
| Son of Ozzy Osborne and TV dare devil Jack Osborne has reportedly been controversially dropped from his latest project after his recent multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Read more... |
| As part of its recent “Channel 4 Goes Mad Season”, the TV channel carried out an extended interview process involving eight volunteers, some of whom had suffered (or continued to suffer) from severe mental illnesses and some of whom had not. During the interview process the interviewers and the audience were left in the dark as to which candidates had had mental health issues and were left to draw their own conclusions. Read more... |
| A Burger King employee was recently fired after he posted pictures on internet image board 4chan of himself at work standing in the tubs of lettuce along with the caption “This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King”. Read more... |
| It has been reported in the press this week that one in five FTSE 100 companies have already reached the Government’s target of having women make up at least a quarter of their board, three years ahead of the 2015 deadline. Read more... |
| After Scottish football giants Glasgow Rangers were forced into liquidation, some players are refusing the 'New' Rangers, but can they do this? Read more... |
| Following on from the call for evidence launched at the end of last year, the Government has launched a formal consultation on reducing the minimum consultation period before redundancies of 100 or more employees can take effect. Read more... |
| Employers who lose equal pay claims are set to be required to undertake and publish equal pay audits in the future. The details of how the employment tribunal’s power to order a pay audit would operate will be consulted on later this year. Read more... |
| Barclays has been fined £290m for attempting to manipulate Libor, the world’s benchmark bank borrowing rate. Read more... |
| As once again England flags fly from cars and dangle from windows, England supporters can enjoy another few weeks of anguish following their team in Euro 2012. Read more... |
| During the second reading debate of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill which took place on 11 June 2012 it has been reported that the business secretary, Vince Cable, announced that the Bill would be amended to “facilitate the use of settlement agreements”. Read more... |
| It was reported last week that a Tribunal has held that an art teacher was unfairly dismissed after she became pregnant when she was fired just days after telling her headmistress she wanted to take maternity leave. Read more... |
| Equality and Human Rights Commission report claims the appointment of women to FTSE 350 boards is held back by selection processes which favour candidates with similar characteristics to existing male-dominated board members. Read more... |
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