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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
21 March 2012
How employers can reduce damages awarded by offering suitable alternative employment
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Debique v Ministry of Defence has held that where a Claimant successfully shows discrimination or unfair dismissal, they will however not receive an award for loss of earnings should they not have accepted a reasonable offer of re-engagement. Ms Debique was in the British Army and encountered various childcare difficulties in her posting. She resigned and claimed discrimination and constructive dismissal.
15 March 2012
Employment Law Reform: Is the Government changing its tune on the Red Tape debate?
At long last the Government seems to have recognised the folly of continuing to major on the approach that it is “red tape” which is preventing employers from deciding to take on more employees. The problem with this approach is that the more the Government repeat this mantra, the more employers will come to believe it, and will start to question whether they are indeed at heightened risk if they do decide to expand their workforce. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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.