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As calls grow for interns to be paid, David Green examines what legal responsibilities employers have towards young people on work experience ‘Work experience is an opportunity to gain an insight into the particular work, the chance to acquire skills and experience, make important contacts and ultimately help secure a permanent job.’ Following the Daily …
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Andrew Taggart and Sarah Hitchins consider the circumstances in which employees of varying seniority may be obliged to reveal their own wrongdoing ‘When considering whether an employee owed a duty to disclose their own wrongdoing, a court is likely to look at their terms and conditions of employment. Some employees (even those who do not …
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The EAT has shed light on what is a fair method for choosing which potentially redundant employee to appoint to a newly created job, reports Jenna Clarke ‘Following a reorganisation of a business, it is often the case, as in Williams, that some roles become redundant but new roles are created.’As advisers, we are all …
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The EAT has extended the protection available to employees who work in the UK for a foreign company, explains Mandeep Kalsi ‘According to the EAT in Pervez v Macquarie Bank, Mr Pervez came within the “legislative grasp of the statutes and regulations” on which his claims were based, even though Hong Kong remained his base …
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Paul Harrison and Stephen Ratcliffe discuss the impact of the Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010 and some key challenges arising from their implementation ‘European case law has generally found that women on maternity leave are in a unique position and so men have not been able to compare themselves to them.’ Paternity leave is, of …
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The government is repealing the proposed extension of the ‘right to request flexible working’ due to be implemented this month, and will impose a moratorium on new regulations for small businesses, report Stephen Ravenscroft and Helen Mulligan ‘Flexible working may present practical difficulties for employers, particularly in smaller businesses that often do not have the …
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Robert Thomas and Dawn da Silva explore the legal implications of recent findings that longer working hours are causing rising sickness absence, stress and employee grievances ‘Organisations that are “running lean” in staff terms are more likely to experience serious problems that will affect productivity, work quality and, potentially, their competitive advantage.’ A number of …
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With the government embarking on another review of the UK’s sickness-absence system, Matthew Howse and Emma Damiral suggest practical ways for employers to get their staff back to work ‘The purpose of the fit note was to encourage employees to return to work in some capacity, with appropriate support, rather than stay off work because …
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Helena Laughrin and Robin Wolfenden review the key employment-related recommendations in the government’s Equality Strategy ‘The government views making pay transparent as the first step to reducing the gender pay gap. It intends to work with businesses and others to develop a voluntary scheme for gender pay reporting in the private sector.’ On 2 December …
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