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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
12 May 2011
Abolition of the Default Retirement Age
6 April, the date the Default Retirement Age was put to rest, passed without quite the bang it should have caused. What are your options in practice?
9 May 2011
Government Guidance on the Agency Workers Regulations 2010
Published guidance on the Agency Workers Regulations which are due to come into force on 1 October 2011.
3 May 2011
Be careful what you say about ex-employees…
The High Court has just handed down judgment in McKie v Swindon College, which represents a timely reminder to all employers to watch what their staff put in emails about ex-employees, even outside the context of “formal” references.
28 April 2011
Should legal representation be permitted in disciplinary hearings?
The extent to which employees enjoy legally enforceable rights on human rights grounds to legal representation in disciplinary hearings remains unclear at the time of writing. However, it is doubtful if the presence of lawyers in disciplinary hearings is really desirable for either employees or employers, except in a very narrow category of the most serious cases.
14 April 2011
“Positive Action” – Will it make any difference?
Since 6 April employers have been be allowed to use what the Government calls called “positive action” to help candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to get into employment. When the positive action proposals were published back in 2008 a somewhat hysterical reaction from the press emerged (perhaps the most memorable being the Daily Express' front-page headline, "White men face jobs ban").