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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
8 March 2012
QPR's story highlights the instability of employment in professional football
Mat Hodgson's documentary film, QPR: The Four Year Plan, has rightly been hailed by the critics for its frank, behind the scenes insight into a particularly turbulent period in the history of the club after its take-over by a consortium of high profile billionaires.
7 March 2012
Protecting your business: dealing, solicitation and inference
The decision in Towry EJ Limited v Barry Bennett and others has caused a lot of comment in the IFA community, largely because of the way Towry, and Andrew Fisher its chief executive, divides opinion amongst them. However, the real issue is what the case tells us about the ability of employers to protect their business from departing employees.
14 February 2012
Government Clarifies Changes to Unfair Dismissal Qualifying Period
The Government has published its draft legislation for increasing the amount of time that an employee will have to have been continuously employee before bringing an unfair dismissal claim to two years. The draft Unfair Dismissal and Statement of Reasons for Dismissal (Variation of Qualifying Period) Order 2012 was published late last week.
27 January 2012
Marriage Discrimination: Back in the spotlight
In 1975, Parliament introduced the Sex Discrimination Act, which afforded protection from discrimination to married persons. The introduction of such protection came about as a result of the practice, which was not uncommon at the time, of employers dismissing female workers when they married. It is thought that the protection was also extended to men as a matter of formal equality more than anything else. In the 30 years or so since the introduction of the Act, employers' views regarding working married women have changed significantly. Marriage discrimination is now only rarely cited as a ground of complaint by claimants and the protection afforded by the Act is less often relied upon.
27 January 2012
Employment Law: 2012 – All Change!
As we return to our desks for the start of 2012, we thought it would be helpful to provide a quick reminder of the important changes we will need to accommodate this year, following the blizzard of government announcements at the end of 2011.