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Joanne Moseley
Swedish derogation contracts put under the spotlight
Legislation protecting temporary agency workers came into force in 2010. After 12 weeks in the job, an agency worker qualifies for the...
29/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Employee called a "fat ginger pikey" loses harassment case
How on earth can an employee refer to a member of staff in this way and, effectively, get away with it? The law The Equality Act 2010...
25/10/18
Joanne Moseley
New Government guidance makes it tougher to remove exam results from performance data
Schools and FE colleges that have applied for the exam results of pupils with serious illnesses, or who are home educated, to be...
24/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Huge response to Government's consultation on "trans" rights
The Government's consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act closed on Monday. We understand that 53,000 responses have been...
24/10/18
Joanne Moseley
SEN update for schools and colleges
There have been a number of important decisions regarding children with Special Educational Needs "SEN" likely to be of interest to...
24/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Morrisons vicariously liable for deliberate data breach by "rogue" employee
Yesterday the Court of Appeal confirmed that the supermarket, Morrisons will have to pay damages to thousands of employees whose data was...
23/10/18
Nicola Gooch
Budget 2018: Letwin, CIL and Land Value Capture - It's all about the money
We are only 7 days out from this year's budget, so we can expect an increasing amount of pre-announcements, spoilers and speculation as...
23/10/18
David Shirt
Irwin Mitchell hosts Brexit event in Manchester
Law firm Irwin Mitchell will host a Brexit-themed event on 20th November to help businesses prepare and plan for when the UK leaves the...
19/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
Possible exemption from leasehold ground rent ban for retirement living
Colleague David Hutber notes the following: In the wake of the much publicised ‘ground rent scandal’, the Government has published a...
19/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
Is Property a proper investment for an open ended fund?
One of the problems with investing in real estate is said to be its illiquidity. We shouldn't be surprised at that. After all, valuable...
18/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Employer liable for actions of MD that took place three hours after the end of its Christmas party
The Court of Appeal in Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd has found the company liable for the costs of providing care to one of its...
17/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
You may feed the swans...
A recent case (published by the brilliant, open access Bailii web service) provides a good chance to remind everyone that village green...
15/10/18
Joanne Moseley
"I had a moral duty": Whistleblowers on why they spoke up
The Public Duty Disclosure Act has been in force since 2 July 1999 and provides legal recourse (via Part IVA of the Employment Rights Act...
12/10/18
Joanne Moseley
£3,000 awarded to job applicant told he was "too old" to apply
According to Employee Benefits blog, an Industrial Tribunal has awarded £3,000 to a 63-year-old man who was told he was too old to apply...
10/10/18
Joanne Moseley
How is the Apprenticeship Levy going to change?
Last week, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond said that the government is going to make some changes to the controversial Apprenticeship Levy...
09/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Top employment cases that will shape 2018/19
We have identified the cases which will have a big impact on employment law and HR policies and practices over the next 12 months. These...
09/10/18
Irwin Mitchell
8,000 Tesco workers join new equal pay claim
Tesco is facing a barrage of additional equal pay claims. Under equal pay law in the UK, staff can challenge their pay rates as compared...
03/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Government pledge to end free movement "once and for all"
Theresa May has announced that EU citizens will no longer be given priority to live and work in Britain after Brexit. She said the terms...
03/10/18
Nicola Gooch
Abuse of Process: Council's enforcement prosecution "based on .... an improper motive"
It is not very often that I am genuinely taken aback by the facts of a Court of Appeal case, but R v The Knightland Foundation and Jacob...
02/10/18
Elizabeth Thomson
Retail and Brexit - it's been an eventful week
The latest figures reported in The Retail Bulletin indicate that consumer mood is dipping, due to concerns about the wider economy in the...
01/10/18
Joanne Moseley
Top five employment cases that will affect the education sector over 2018/19 academic year
We’ve picked out key cases that could have a big impact on employment law and HR policies and practices over the next 12 months. Age...
28/09/18
Nicola Gooch
Why build more when you can build less: Wirral Council first to reduce housing sites following release of updated ONS household projections
Last week the Office of National Statistics released an updated version of its household projection figures, which estimate the number of...
26/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
Record £15.6m underpayment of minimum wage
In the last year 200,000 workers were paid less than the minimum wage. This is the highest figure since the law was changed in 1999 to...
24/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Is your intern really volunteering?
A minor twitter storm erupted yesterday when Legal Cheek* wrote about a law firm who had placed an ad for a three month intern. The...
21/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
Employer first to launch 6 months' fully paid parental leave for all employees
Aviva has certainly raised the standard of family friendly treatment of its staff by introducing for all new mothers and fathers a period...
20/09/18
Irwin Mitchell
Treasury committee calls for regulation of ICOs
The most likely 'quick fix' to this recommendation will be the addition of new classes of investment to the Regulated Activities Order....
19/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Employee who wrote “Please accept one month’s notice” did not resign
If you received a letter from an employee written in this way - would you think they had resigned? The employer did in Levy v East Kent...
19/09/18
Nicola Gooch
The Devil is in the Detail: New National Planning Guidance for Build to Rent Schemes envisages very detailed s.106 Agreements.
Last week, MHCLG updated its National Planning Policy Guidance with remarkably little fanfare.* The revised guidance covers a large...
18/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Report into #metoo shows gender discrimination widespread at work
A major new report from Young Women’s Trust has found that, despite the #MeToo movement and reforms including gender pay gap reporting,...
14/09/18
Joanne Moseley
Toolkit published to help organisations bridge the gender pay gap
The Government backed - Women's Business Council's Men as Change Agents group - has published a toolkit of practical advice aimed at...
14/09/18