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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
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").
8 April 2011
The Default Retirement Age (Again)
If there are any employers out there considering thinking about serving notice of retirement on any of their employees before the default retirement age of 65 ceases to apply then they are now too late.
1 April 2011
Are you ready for the new paternity leave regime?
Fathers already benefit from the right to take up to two weeks (ordinary) paternity leave but for babies born on or after 3 April 2011 fathers will have the right to take additional paternity leave (APL) of up to 6 months.
28 March 2011
What the budget means for employment law
After the speculation the dust has settled on the budget. It is fair to say there was not much there to excite employment lawyers or to free businesses from their burdens. The major change was the announcement that dual discrimination will not come into force. Whilst it is possible to spin this by saying employers will not face these claims and so cut their costs and risks, the reality is that it will not make much difference. Conceptually employees who can bring dual discrimination claims will now be left with no legal protection. However, in practice employees are very likely to bring individual discrimination claims. Therefore, employers will need to defend, settle or otherwise deal with such claims.
17 March 2011
2012 Olympic Games - are employers going to be as flexible as the gymnasts?
On Monday this week, some 6.6 million tickets for the 2012 Olympics went on sale, with a further 2 million tickets for the Paralympics available from 9 September. Lord Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said he was confident the Games would be a sell-out and it is difficult to argue otherwise.