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***EDIT – I’ve now been pointed towards the full judgment, available here. So much of what appears below can be disregarded! Please read the the new post here!*** Thanks to Family Lore for noticing that Christian marriage registrar Lillian Ladele has won her religious discrimination claim following her refusal to perform civil partnerships. As usual with [...] I like to bang on about employment law provision by non-lawyers, and the case of Howes v. Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council [2008] UKEAT brings up a problem that will no doubt be raised again as the range of providers grows. In a nutshell, unless your legal advice is coming from a qualified and practising barrister [...] Compromise agreements, which are a vital tool in dispute resolution, come with some sensible safeguards. To be valid in compromising employment rights they must be in writing, set out the claims which are being compromised, and the employee must have received advice on the agreement’s terms and effect. The advice must come from (presently) a [...] Reading John Hutton’s speech delivered just six weeks ago or so the following appears: Prioritising more jobs over new laws David Jackson and Pauline Smout, butchers from Sheffield, are the first employers to be successfully prosecuted under s31(1) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 – which means that they refused or wilfully neglected to remunerate their workers. Previous prosecutions under the Act, but mainly in relation to failure to keep proper records. Given that underpaid [...] TUPE 2006 still hasn’t produced much caselaw on service provision changes, but one thorny point has been helped by the case of Kimberley Group Housing Ltd v. Hambley & Ors (UK) Ltd [2008] which deals with ’split’ service provision. By way of reminder, the event that triggers a transfer under the service provision change provisions is [...] In my quest for continual self-improvement I’ve now moved this site onto its own server. What does this mean? Well, hopefully it’ll let me make this site what I want it to be – and you’ll see some exciting new changes in the coming weeks. If you subscribe to this blog please make sure your reader [...] |
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