The Year Ahead: Fourteen predictions for 2014

Sarah Parkin rounds up the key legal developments and cases that employment law practitioners need to be aware of next year ‘A particular issue likely to be of concern to employers is whether they will face discrimination claims if they pay enhanced maternity pay where someone is on maternity leave but do not pay the …
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Update: Letting it go to waste

Jack Hayward reports on a busy month in procurement practice ‘On 19 September 2013, the Cabinet Office published a government consultation on proposals for making public sector procurement more accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).’Just as we go to press the decision in Covanta Energy Ltd v Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority [2013] has been …
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TUPE: Something or nothing?

The reprieve for the service provision change rules in the government’s response to its TUPE consultation will come as a relief to most businesses, comment Chris Wellham and Oliver Spratt ‘The relative certainty introduced by the SPC provisions has reduced the number of TUPE tribunal claims and helps create a level playing field for contractors.’ …
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TUPE: Ensuring ‘a fair balance’

The ECJ has finally put an end to uncertainty about whether transferred employees can benefit from ongoing changes to historic collective agreements, write Emma Burrows and Anna Scott ‘The decisions in Whent and Werhof created a conflict which has led to uncertainty over how far the provisions of collective agreements transfer and bind a transferee.’ …
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Outsourcing: Commercial confusion?

Julian Yew highlights the key areas of change in TUPE for those involved in commercial outsourcing There does not appear to be any exemption for service provision changes affecting a small number of employees of a large organisation.In January 2013, the government issued a consultation paper on proposed changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection …
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