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- Employment Law
Key Issues You Should Consider When Providing a Reference
What are the key issues a business should consider before providing a reference for an employee or former employee? Types of reference A business is ...
- Employment Law
Holiday Entitlement and Pay – Your Questions Answered
Q: What is an employee’s minimum holiday entitlement per year? A: The Working Time Regulations (“WTR”) provide for an annual entitlement of 5.6 ...
- Employment Law
TUPE: A Short Overview for Small Businesses
What is TUPE? The immediate answer that springs to mind is ‘a nightmare’, but in fact ‘TUPE’ stands for the Transfer of Undertakings ...
- Criminal Law
- Employment Law
Have you been bitten in the workplace?
For those of you who have children, we’ve all been there. Whichever playgroup you go to, there will always be one or two children that spoil it for ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Employment Law
Garden Leave: What does it actually mean?
This briefing explains when a business may be able to place an employee on garden leave. What is garden leave? When an employee decides to leave ...