May 2012 #130 Issue Archives | Legalease Law Journals

Employment Law Reform: The Employer’s Charter and beyond

DLA Piper UK LLP | Employment Law Journal | May 2012 #130

Jonathan Exten-Wright examines the current state of play with the government’s wide-ranging changes to employment law, including its controversial proposals for compensated no-fault dismissals

Justification Defence: Revisiting the ‘cost plus’ rule

Lewis Silkin | Employment Law Journal | May 2012 #130

Katharine McPherson reviews the decision in Woodcock v Cumbria PCT and considers what role cost may play in justifying treatment that would otherwise amount to discrimination

Collective Redundancy: Restructuring the consultation rules

Olswang | Employment Law Journal | May 2012 #130

Dan Aherne and Libby Payne contemplate the courts’ and the government’s attempts to address difficulties with the law on consulting employees about collective redundancies

Aggravated Damages: Compensation for making a bad situation worse

Baker McKenzie LLP | Employment Law Journal | May 2012 #130

A recent EAT case has highlighted the difficulties involved in awarding damages for aggravating conduct separately from compensation for injury to feelings, explains Sarah Gregory

Disability Discrimination: A step too far

Fieldfisher | Employment Law Journal | May 2012 #130

The EAT has tightened up its approach to the duty to make reasonable adjustments, write Nick Thorpe and Gemma Rusling

Board-Level Diversity: Skirting the issue

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | Employment Law Journal | May 2012 #130

Jemima Coleman and Katie Russell weigh up the steps companies can take to improve female representation at board level without committing unlawful positive discrimination

TUPE: Outsourcing: back to square one?

Hogan Lovells | Employment Law Journal | May 2012 #130

A number of recent decisions suggest that the EAT is taking a more restrictive approach to when TUPE applies to a service-provision change, report Kate Barker and Rob Collier-Wright

Employment Law Journal: May 2012 #130