Monthly Archives: April 2009

ELBA offer training over Skype

Those  barristers who aren’t already should join the Employment Law Bar Association. Their latest offering is a seminar on understanding tax in the context of Employment Law. That may or may not set your heart racing, but what will excite … Continue reading

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Increase in SRP weekly pay cap

Quick reminder on how Statutory Redundancy Pay is calculated. Take your employee’s weekly wage, then award: 0.5 week’s pay for each full year of service where age during year less than 22 1.0 week’s pay for each full year of … Continue reading

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Daniel Barnett reaches milestone

Part of the lack of updates to this blog recently means I’m late reporting on a true employment law internet luminary reaching a real milestone. Daniel Barnett, barrister at 1 Temple Gardens, has been sending email employment law bulletins to … Continue reading

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The truth on costs orders in the employment tribunal

The excellent Employment Tribunal Claims blog (which I shall now belatedly add to my blogroll), has performed some analysis on the frequency and amount of costs orders in the tribunals. In summary, they report that the percentage of cases which … Continue reading

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Employee suspended for disclosing anti-gay views in a conversation

The reason that the regulations concerning sexual orientation and religion and belief will cause so many thorny problems is that the latter may well protect opinions and points of views (what else is a religion or philosophical belief?) that are … Continue reading

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Imminent redesign of Usefully Employed

Following a period of shameful inactivity there will, by the end of this week, be a redesign of Usefully Employed – not necessarily aesthetic, but centred around content. Note that service may therefore be intermittent during this time. What would … Continue reading

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