Tag: Solicitors Coventry
- Employment Law
Facebook and dismissal
An Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case provides a useful reminder to businesses of the importance of maintaining an effective social media policy, ...
- Employment Law
Mobile workers, travel time and the Working Time Regulations
The issue of whether mobile workers’ travelling time between their home and the premises of their first and last customers counts as ‘working ...
- Employment Law
Statutory Holidays and Sickness Absence
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) does not require workers on sick leave to provide evidence ...
- Employment Law
A reminder of online and email risks to your business
This briefing highlights the risks all employees should be aware of when using e-mail and the internet at work, sending work related e-mails or ...
- Employment Law
Increase to National Minimum Wage
Increase to National Minimum Wage New National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates will apply from 1st October 2015. The new hourly rates will be as follows: ...
- Family Law
Divorce settlements
In a recent Court ruling, divorce settlements and ancillary relief matters will be affected in the way they have been previously calculated. Divorced ...
- Wills, Estates and Trusts
Get your will right
A recent court ruling will have a major impact in the way future wills are written. A judge has ruled that your will can be ignored if it has not ...
- Uncategorised
Can you live without free justice?
The current government is ploughing ahead with their plans to cut the Legal Aid Budget which goes to the heart of the Criminal and Civil Justice ...
- Employment Law
Permitting the use of electronic cigarettes in the workplace…or not?
Smoking at work has been effectively prohibited since the Health Act outlawed smoking in enclosed places on 1 July 2007. We have become ...
- Employment Law
1st June 2015 is the start date of Pensions Auto-Enrolment for small employers
New figures from the Pensions Regulator show that the number of penalty notices issued to employers who have not complied with their auto-enrolment ...