Posts from October 2015
Irwin Mitchell
More changes for apprenticeships on the agenda
Further to my earlier comment, it should also be remembered that further changes aimed at improving the apprenticeships brand are on the...
22/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Company director sent down
A company director has been sent to prison for 8 months for breach of health and safety regulations
22/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Apprenticeships at risk?
This is an interesting comment on the dilution of the quality of apprenticeships. However, the drive to increase the number of...
22/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Prison for company director
Company director gets 8 months inside for breach of health and safety regulations
22/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Something else not predicted in "Back to the Future 2"
On "Back to the Future Day", EGi, reporting from MIPIM UK, highlights another thing not predicted in the film - the massive changes in...
21/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
A bleak outlook for first-time buyers in London...
Amidst the reports of ever-increasing house prices, experts suggested that we might move toward the continental model of renting for a...
21/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Employment law goes back to the future!
Ok I am shamelessly jumping on the bandwagon but I can't let Back to the Future Day pass without comment. I really enjoyed reading the...
21/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Blowing the whistle about contractual terms
Workers who report wrongdoing by their employer and third parties (blow the whistle) are protected against victimisation and dismissal....
21/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Mind the gap?
TFL may be able to help fill the gap. Reported in EGi from Estates Gazette today, TFL may use some of the land it is proposing to release...
20/10/15
Nicola Gooch
Does localism mean fewer homes?
A recent article on the BBC website about the politics of the housing crisis would certainly seem to suggest so. The article reports on a...
20/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Major new housing JV announced in Brighton
Brighton & Hove City Council leader Warren Morgan (quoted below) has announced an ambitious JV with Hyde Housing Association intended to...
20/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
BPF Manifesto reveals 16,000 Build to Rent homes in the pipeline
The BPF have published their Build to Rent manifesto, available through bpf.org.uk. Alongside encouraging statistics (and a rather cool...
20/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Zero Hours Contracts - Finally some guidance
The Department of Business has published guidance on zero hours contracts and when it is appropriate to use them.
19/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
A guide to ... zero hours contracts
Following the ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has produced a guide...
19/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
New ways of working
An interesting blog has been released by Savills this week highlighting the new ways in which we are working. The report suggests that...
16/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Disruptive tech! The battle continues
Really interesting decision from the High Court today and it sounds like it was pretty emphatic outcome for Uber. This will certainly...
16/10/15
Nicola Gooch
Housing and Planning Bill 2015: Implications for planning
The Planning Team has produced a technical briefing note on the implications of the Housing and Planning Bill 2015. The note is long, it...
16/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Want to discuss something? Send a tweet!
This story highlights that more and more people are turning to social media to comment, correspond and vent their frustrations. It is...
16/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Builders 1 - PRS 0
More fall-out from the PM's announcement at Conference this week. Which policy will triumph, and where will the new homes come from?
16/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Housing and Planning Bill outlined
The Prime Minister has outlined the likely contents of the Housing and Planning Bill. The starter homes initiative (replacing the...
16/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Trade Union Bill 2015-16
The Trade Union Bill 2015-16 is being debated this week in committee in the House of Commons. The Bill initially sought to cover a...
16/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
#ILookLike...
The recent twitter campaign #ILookLikeAnEngineer has been quickly followed by others such as #ILookLikeAPhysicist and #ILookLikeASurgeon...
15/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Scotland and England differ on Important Insolvency issue
Two cases, one English and the other Scots in the last few months have given markedly different outcomes to what happens to property that...
15/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
It's not for girls, apparently?!?
It was disappointing but not surprising to see this morning the stereotypes and attitudes that still persist over what sort of jobs are...
15/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Tesco Disposes of Mothballed Sites
Tesco has announced its deal to dispose of a number of its mothballed sites in the South East. Hopefully this will create an opportunity...
15/10/15
Nicola Gooch
Tesco sells abandoned supermarket sites to housing developer
Once Tesco had announced that it was abandoning 49 of its development projects, the decision to sell some of the sites for residential...
15/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Discrimination at 40
They used to say life begins at 40 and as I turn 36 in November I hope this is true! Perhaps more importantly the Sex Discrimination Act...
14/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Snow days
We all know that it is a popular British pastime to speculate about the weather but if you are an employer you might be able to get one...
14/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Bringing your own device to work; who owns the information
This is a really interesting article by my colleague, Dan Hedley, about protecting data when an employee accesses company information...
14/10/15
Irwin Mitchell
Does the law allow straight talking in redundancy situations?
In a redundancy situation employees often just want to know what is going on and find out if they are going to have a job or not. So...
14/10/15