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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
3 November 2011
Is the proposal to dispense with unfair dismissal claims a good thing for employers?
The abolition of unfair dismissal
27 October 2011
Managing the impact of the challenges posed by social networking in the workplace
New 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 challenges such as ‘Time theft’, defamation, Health and Safety issues, Cyber bullying, Data Protection and Privacy issues, Employer liability, social exclusion and discrimination.
27 October 2011
Default Retirement Age – or Not?
Changes to employment law happen twice a year, in early April and early October. The changes at the beginning of this month were fairly modest, but the biggest was the final disappearance of the default retirement age, in other words the age at which a forced retirement will not trigger a possible age discrimination claim. But, without a default retirement age, will employers be able to set their own individual retirement ages for their workforce, or sections of their workforce, rather than dealing with each employee’s retirement individually.
14 October 2011
Not enough women on boards? Or not enough women who are qualified?
The majority of Britain’s largest companies have so far failed to set targets for the number of women they have on their boards, despite recommendations by Lord Davies.
10 October 2011
This is no way to deal with employment law reform!
It may have taken the Government some time to get cracking with its programme of employment law reform, but we thought it was getting things organised when it released “Resolving Workplace Disputes” in January 2011 containing, as it did, a large number of proposals seeking to head off employment disputes reaching the Tribunal in the first place, and then if they did, improving the system such as to ensure they were processed more efficiently than now. We have been waiting many months for the Government to reply to all the responses that were sent into the Paper, and then all of a sudden, doubtless to coincide with the Conference of the Conservative Party in Manchester last week, a number of announcements were made, and in some cases snatched back almost as quickly as they had been released!