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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
22 October 2014
Drug testing in the workplace - the difficulties for employers
Recent reports suggest that since 2010, the number of UK employers conducting workplace drug testing has increased by up to 470%. Drug testing has traditionally been limited to safety critical roles. However, it is becoming more common across a wider variety of sectors (such as retail, professional and financial services). According to the latest Global Drug Survey, within the last 12 months 20% of British respondents have gone to work whilst coming down from drugs. It is hardly surprising then, that businesses are upping the ante.
This blog first appeared as an article in HR Magazine in October 2014.
16 October 2014
Freeze your eggs, not your career progression
This is the subliminal message being given to employees of Facebook and Apple in the US, following the announcement this week that these companies are giving female staff the opportunity to delay starting a family by paying for them to freeze their eggs.
30 September 2014
Legal update - TUPE: does a location change mean employees can bring constructive and automatically unfair dismissal claims?
There has been real anxiety amongst employers (particularly outsourced service providers) in recent years regarding the ability of employees in a TUPE transfer to bring constructive and automatically unfair dismissal claims based on a change in their working location. However, the recent case of Cetinsoy & ors v London United Busways Limited illustrates that even under the law previously in force prior to the amendments to TUPE brought into force from 31 January 2014, it did not necessarily follow that a location change in the context of a TUPE transfer meant that the affected employees could establish constructive and automatically unfair dismissal.
30 September 2014
Legal update: Bonuses – the element of discretion
In the recent case of Brogden and another v Investec Bank plc, the Court considered the exercise of discretion in relation to bonus payments.
15 September 2014
Social media at work – when enough’s enough
Social media is increasingly becoming an issue for employers, with its ever-growing popularity and its consequential impact on all areas of individuals’ lives. It’s clear that social media is here to stay as part of both social and work life, and employers need to know what action they can take against an employee who commits social media related misconduct.