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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
5 April 2012
Significant employment law changes introduced on 6 April 2012
Each year, April is always a time for change in employment law, and this year the changes are particularly significant.. Tomorrow, 6 April, sees some significant procedural changes and amendments in the employment tribunals and also changes to unfair dismissal law and a much needed clarification to the Equality Act.
21 March 2012
All change - fundamental changes to Employment law announced
The Government has signalled its intent to turn over a new employment law leaf in 2012 by introducing some radical alterations to current employment law. Many of the proposals are as yet just that, proposals, with no details as to how the changes will operate in practice.
21 March 2012
Tribunal decision - wearing a remembrance poppy is not a “philosophical belief”
After a string of philosophical belief cases finding in favour of employees, including one which held that a belief in climate change was capable of being a philosophical belief, a recent decision has indicated the limits beyond which employment tribunals are not prepared to go in assigning protection under the Equality Act 2010.
21 March 2012
Requirement for “recent paid work” - when unjustified recruitment criteria are considered discriminatory
The Northern Ireland case of Crilly v Ballymagroarty Hazelbank Community Partnership vividly demonstrates to employers the danger of setting overly stringent recruitment criteria that could indirectly discriminate against groups based upon a protected characteristic.
21 March 2012
Managing the impact of the challenges posed by social networking in the workplace
Recent research from the Institute for Employment Studies has highlighted the difficulties some employers experience when setting standards of behaviour for the increasing use of social networking tools (including Smart phones, internet, tweeting and blogging) in the workplace. This research prompted the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) to produce practical guidelines for employers on how to respond to these challenges.