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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
30 October 2013
Employment Heads Up - October 2013
Welcome to the October edition of Employment Heads Up, our monthly review providing you with an update on current trends, cases and developments in employment law.
In this month’s edition, we look at cases involving:
- the duty to make reasonable adjustments;
- the validity of non-solicitation restrictive covenants
- the law affording protection against third party harassment repealed
- offers of 'reasonable' alternative employment
25 October 2013
Fun (yes I mean fun!) at the Employment Tribunal User Group meeting in Watford!
For those who think Regional Employment Judges (REJ) do not like holding Employment Tribunal User Group meetings, they should have been a fly on the wall at the meeting in Watford on 24 October 2013.
15 August 2013
Retaining talent in a world where age shouldn’t matter
According to figures published by the Office of National Statistics, of the 29.8 million adults currently employed in the UK, 17.5 million of them are between the ages of 25-49, whilst some 8.6 million are +50 years old. With an ageing population still struggling to cope with the effects of the recession, and the Government’s abolition of the default retirement age in April 2011, the dynamics of the UK’s workforce are likely to change over the next decade as people stay in work for longer. Yet are employers ready?
8 August 2013
Casual workers - the key legal issues
From stewards and turnstile operators, to programme sellers, hospitality and catering staff – these individuals play a vital part in the match day experience of football fans. For these frontline roles, clubs often rely on casual workers. A club’s demand for their services will be sporadic, depending on when and how often home matches take place.
5 July 2013
Early Conciliation – Are you ready?
We have been focussing so much recently on the introduction of fees into the Employment Tribunal, and the new (“Underhill” inspired) Employment Tribunal Rules due to come into force on 29 July 2013, that the new system for Early Conciliation (“EC”) through ACAS, has largely gone by unnoticed. Indeed we are still waiting for the Government to respond to its consultation paper although that is apparently to be expected very soon.