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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
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.
31 May 2013
Whistleblowing reform - some discomfort surrounding the law
Like many employment lawyers I have been uncomfortable about the law on whistleblowing. No one can argue with the principle that the exposure of wrongdoing is in the public interest and should be encouraged or that those who do so should be protected. However, what was a good idea in theory often appeared to have been abused in practice by claimants exploiting the whistleblowing regime for purely personal advantage in cases involving no legitimate element of public interest.
20 May 2013
Employment lawyers and the changing workforce - are we just playing catch up or are we in the vanguard of change?
I attended a fabulous Industrial Law Society Conference at the week end. it was rightly held under the ILS ' own version of Chatham House Rules so I cannot attribute views to anyone in particular. What I can say is that there was a fascinating discussion from an HR perspective, as to where we have got to in terms of today's diverse and atypical workforce - a world away from where we were just a decade ago.
15 May 2013
Employment Tribunal users meeting at London Central has the power to surprise
I was fortunate to have attended what turned out to be one of the most interesting meetings of the year. And get this. It was the Employment Tribunal Users meeting at London Central. No really.
25 April 2013
Growth and Infrastructure Bill passed, but at what cost?
Quite extraordinary developments in the House of Lords last night. The Growth and Infrastructure Bill passed through the parliamentary “ping pong” process and made it to the Royal Assent stage by the skin of its teeth and only after the Government made concession after concession.