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Wide-ranging recommendations permitted

18 August 2011

18 August 2011

Intervention sought in religion cases

The EHRC has made an application to intervene in four cases at the European Court of Human Rights involving religious discrimination, arguing that judges have...

18 August 2011

Low success rates in discrimination claims

An analysis of the latest tribunals statistics for 2010/11 conducted by Equal Opportunities Review shows that discrimination claims are the least successful when compared with...

18 August 2011

Research on attitudes to LGB&T employees

The Home Office has published details of a new study into employment barriers faced by LGB&T people, that identifies the obstacles preventing employers from taking...

18 August 2011

Breaking the glass ceiling

In a joint letter to FTSE 350 companies, Theresa May, Home Secretary, and Business Secretary Vince Cable have set out a strong business case for...

28 July 2011

Request must be considered in good faith

In Compass Group plc v Ayodele the EAT held that the statutory retirement procedure can be breached where requests to work on beyond retirement are...

28 July 2011

No right to legal representation at disciplinary hearing

In R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School and Y City Council, the Supreme Court held that a teaching assistant was...

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AG’s opinion on holidays and sickness absence

28 July 2011

28 July 2011

Payment was a gift, not notice pay

In Publicis Consultants UK Ltd v O'Farrell the EAT held that the wording used in a dismissal letter referring to an ‘ex gratia’ payment did...

28 July 2011

Corporate manslaughter charge against second company

Following advice from the Crown Prosecution Service, a second company has been charged with corporate manslaughter following the death of an employee and three of...

28 July 2011

Drop in applications for union recognition

The Central Arbitration Committee has published its annual report for 2010/11, showing that, there were 28 applications for statutory trade union recognition, compared to 42...

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Employment transferred under TUPE

28 July 2011

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